tricolor
The verdict
“tricolor” is uncommon French (frequency #99,718 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,718
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lori tricolore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tricolor · tricolor · French
tricolor · rank #99,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,718
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trez
Nearest frequency peer: trez (-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 « tricolor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tragédienne
tragédienne
286 corpus weight
- trez
trez
284 corpus weight
- tricolor
tricolor
283 corpus weight
- tricorne
tricorne
282 corpus weight
- Trojans
Trojans
281 corpus weight
- trotskisme
trotskisme
280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tricolor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tricolor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tricolor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tricolor is uncommon French at frequency #99,718 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tricolor, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tricolor, spelled T-R-I-C-O-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1Lori tricolore.
- 2Variété d'amarante dont les feuilles passent de vert à vert-jaune puis à rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tricolor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le beau rouge, l'azur et le vert qui frappent les yeux dans le plumage de ce lori, et le coupent par grandes masses, nous ont déterminés à lui donner le nom de tricolor.
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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