tric
\tʁik\
The verdict
“tric” is uncommon French (frequency #59,693 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,693
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grève.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tric · tric · French
tric · rank #59,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,693
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transgénique
Nearest frequency peer: transgénique (-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 « tric »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- toros
toros
40,311 corpus weight
- tosca
tosca
40,310 corpus weight
- transgénique
transgénique
40,309 corpus weight
- tric
tric
40,308 corpus weight
- tricks
tricks
40,307 corpus weight
- trompons
trompons
40,306 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tric » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tric |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁik\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tric » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tric is uncommon French at frequency #59,693 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tric has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tric, spelled T-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Grève.
- 2Levée. Au bridge, le septième pli et les suivants.
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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