trick

\tʁik\

/\tʁik\/ noun

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The verdict

“trick” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,104
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La septième levée et les suivantes du jeu de bridge.

Corpus desk

Index FR-trick · trick · French

trick · rank #37,104 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,104
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tricheur

Nearest frequency peer: tricheur (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « trick »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « trick » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

trick vs truc
60% similar
trick vs trio
60% similar
trick vs trip
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for trick
PropertyValue
Headwordtrick
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁik\
Letters5
Frequency rank#37,104
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trick »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).trickse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tricheur » (#37,103), « triomphal » (#37,105), « tribale » (#37,102). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trick » est au #37,104. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around trick (IPA \tʁik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,104 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "La septième levée et les suivantes du jeu de bridge.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trick, with forms such as "rtick", "tirck", and "trcik". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "truc", "trio", "trip", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trick, spelled T-R-I-C-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    La septième levée et les suivantes du jeu de bridge.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how trick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le camp qui réussit treize levées marque, en plus des tricks que lui valent ces levées, 40 points pour ce grand chelem dans la colonne des honneurs.

This word in other languages

trick(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtick
  • tirck
  • trcik
  • tricck
  • trickk
  • trikc
  • trrick
  • ttrick

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trick - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

rtick2tirck2trcik2tricck1trickk1trikc2trrick1ttrick1
Edit distance from "trick"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trick"?
"trick" is spelled T-R-I-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁik\.
What does "trick" mean?
As a noun, "trick" means: La septième levée et les suivantes du jeu de bridge.
What words are commonly confused with "trick"?
"trick" is commonly confused with "truc", "trio", "trip". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trick"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trick" is \tʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trick" come from?
"trick" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trick", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Untel#37,116vadim#37,118vengé#37,121zorro#37,132

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

étrier8 variantsacheva8 variantsrisotto8 variantsallégée8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list