tribute
\ˈtɹɪbjuːt\
The verdict
“tribute” is uncommon French (frequency #62,686 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,686
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hommage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tribute · tribute · French
tribute · rank #62,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,686
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tribalisme
Nearest frequency peer: tribalisme (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tribute »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- travaillerai
travaillerai
37,318 corpus weight
- trekking
trekking
37,317 corpus weight
- tribalisme
tribalisme
37,316 corpus weight
- tribute
tribute
37,315 corpus weight
- triceps
triceps
37,314 corpus weight
- tricots
tricots
37,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tribute » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tribute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtɹɪbjuːt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tribute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tribute is uncommon French at frequency #62,686 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtɹɪbjuːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tribute in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tribute, spelled T-R-I-B-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Hommage.
- 2Tribut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tribute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Psychologists recruited avid fans of Manchester United. Fans wrote about what ManU meant to them, and were told they would record a short video tribute to their team in another building.
This volume of specially written papers is a fitting tribute to Hyman Minsky’s work as it relates to the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2007 in the US and quickly spread around the world.
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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