tribus
\tʁi.by\
The verdict
“tribus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,766
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tribu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tribus · tribus · French
tribus · rank #7,766 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,766
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tirés
Nearest frequency peer: tirés (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tribus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- successivem…
successivement
92,238 corpus weight
- suffrages
suffrages
92,237 corpus weight
- tirés
tirés
92,236 corpus weight
- tribus
tribus
92,235 corpus weight
- vaincu
vaincu
92,233 corpus weight
- vitesses
vitesses
92,232 corpus weight
What this shows « tribus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tribus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.by\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tribus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tribus (IPA \tʁi.by\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,766 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tribu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tribus, with forms such as "rtibus", "tirbus", and "trbius". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "tris", "trous", "triés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tribus, spelled T-R-I-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tribu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tribus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tribus turcomanes qui nomadisent au nord de Khiva reconnaissent depuis longtemps la souveraineté nominale du khan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtibus
- tirbus
- trbius
- tribbus
- tribsu
- tribuss
- triubs
- trribus
- ttribus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tribus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tribus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).