tricorne
\tʁi.kɔʁn\
The verdict
“tricorne” is uncommon French (frequency #99,719 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,719
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a trois cornes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tricorne · tricorne · French
tricorne · rank #99,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tricolor
Nearest frequency peer: tricolor (-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 « tricorne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- tst
tst
279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tricorne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tricorne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁi.kɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tricorne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tricorne is uncommon French at frequency #99,719 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁi.kɔʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a trois cornes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tricorne in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tricorne, spelled T-R-I-C-O-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a trois cornes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tricorne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un autre coteau , qui est aussi une très-bonne terre à blé, j’ai fait donner après la récolte de blé, un labour le plus profond possible, car huit bons bœufs étaient attelés après la charrue tricorne et tiraient de toute leur force.
Sous Louis XVI, où déjà le chapeau rond commençait à se montrer par suite de l’engouement pour les usages anglais, le clergé portait le chapeau tricorne, que conservent encore de nos jours les ecclésiastiques qui affectent une plus grande régularité.
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); 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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