triceps
\tʁi.sɛps\
The verdict
“triceps” is uncommon French (frequency #62,687 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,687
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit de certains muscles qui ont trois faisceaux charnus à l’une de leurs extrémités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-triceps · triceps · French
triceps · rank #62,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,687
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tribute
Nearest frequency peer: tribute (-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 « triceps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- trisomiques
trisomiques
37,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « triceps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triceps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁi.sɛps\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « triceps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
triceps is uncommon French at frequency #62,687 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁi.sɛps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit de certains muscles qui ont trois faisceaux charnus à l’une de leurs extrémités.".
triceps has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is triceps, spelled T-R-I-C-E-P-S.
Definition
- 1Se dit de certains muscles qui ont trois faisceaux charnus à l’une de leurs extrémités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how triceps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Muscle triceps brachial, muscle triceps sural.
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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