trichome
\tʁi.kɔm\
The verdict
“trichome” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fines excroissances ou appendices de plantes ou de protistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trichome · trichome · French
trichome · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trichome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.kɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trichome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trichome is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.kɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for trichome, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 trichome, spelled T-R-I-C-H-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Fines excroissances ou appendices de plantes ou de protistes.
- 2Fines excroissances ou appendices de plantes ou de protistes.
- 3Tumeur.
- 4Enchevêtrement de cheveux qui s’agglutinent.
- 5Poils dressés à la surface de la carapace de certains insectes myrmécophiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trichome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ouverture de ces glandes est entourée de poils dressés, les trichomes, que l’on retrouve chez de nombreux myrmécophiles.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.