tricot
French, noun/tʁi.ko/
tricot is spelled T-R-I-C-O-T (6 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tricot is a French masculine noun meaning “knitting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tissu fait en mailles, soit à la main, avec de longues aiguilles émoussées, soit au métier”.
What does tricot mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineknitting
- 2
masculinesweater, jumper
- 3
masculinesea krait (snake)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tissu fait en mailles, soit à la main, avec de longues aiguilles émoussées, soit au métier. 2. Travail d’une personne qui tricote. 3. Vêtement fait en fils de laine (ou d'une autre matière) tricotés. 4. Vêtement de coton couvrant le haut du corps.
noun: 1. Bâton épais et court, trique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tricot
- tricots plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tricot?
- /tʁi.ko/
- \tʁi.ko\
- [tʁi.kɔ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tricot
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tricot in French?
tricot appears 1.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).