tricotage
\tʁi.kɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“tricotage” is uncommon French (frequency #96,460 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,460
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tricoter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tricotage · tricotage · French
tricotage · rank #96,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,460
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Trastevere
Nearest frequency peer: Trastevere (-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 « tricotage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transpondeu…
transpondeurs
3,544 corpus weight
- transsexuel…
transsexuelles
3,543 corpus weight
- Trastevere
Trastevere
3,542 corpus weight
- tricotage
tricotage
3,541 corpus weight
- trillion
trillion
3,540 corpus weight
- troupiers
troupiers
3,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tricotage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tricotage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.kɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tricotage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tricotage is uncommon French at frequency #96,460 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.kɔ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de tricoter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tricotage, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tricotage, spelled T-R-I-C-O-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de tricoter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tricotage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tricotage à la machine.
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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