tribut
\tʁi.by\
The verdict
“tribut” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,705. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,705
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contribution périodique qu’un État impose à un peuple vaincu comme signe de la dépendance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tribut · tribut · French
tribut · rank #19,705 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,705
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transmissions
Nearest frequency peer: transmissions (-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 « tribut »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- torts
torts
80,299 corpus weight
- tragiques
tragiques
80,298 corpus weight
- transmissio…
transmissions
80,297 corpus weight
- tribut
tribut
80,296 corpus weight
- UFC
UFC
80,295 corpus weight
- valais
valais
80,294 corpus weight
What this shows « tribut » 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 | tribut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.by\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tribut »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tribut (IPA \tʁi.by\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,705 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tribut, with forms such as "rtibut", "tirbut", and "trbiut". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tricot", "trique", "tribu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tribut, spelled T-R-I-B-U-T.
Definition
- 1Contribution périodique qu’un État impose à un peuple vaincu comme signe de la dépendance.
- 2Ce qu’on est obligé d’accorder, de faire, de supporter.
- 3Ce qui est apporté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tribut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me nomma même trésorier des tributs que l'Arabie Pétrée payait au roi des rois.
À l’apogée de l'empire maritime athénien, un millier de cités lui versaient un tribut.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtibut
- tirbut
- trbiut
- tribbut
- tribtu
- tributt
- triubt
- trribut
- ttribut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tribut - 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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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).