triceps
\tʁi.sɛps\
The verdict
“triceps” is an uncommon French word, ranked #62,687 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #62,687
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit de certains muscles qui ont trois faisceaux charnus à l’une de leurs extrémités.
| 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) |
Where “triceps” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for triceps is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁi.sɛps\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,687 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “triceps”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-I-C-E-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁi.sɛps\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.