tricote
\tʁi.kɔt\
The verdict
“tricote” is uncommon French (frequency #61,197 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,197
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maillet de bois utilisé pour le cassage manuel des noix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tricote · tricote · French
tricote · rank #61,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,197
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transverses
Nearest frequency peer: transverses (-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 « tricote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transfronta…
transfrontalières
38,807 corpus weight
- transitant
transitant
38,806 corpus weight
- transverses
transverses
38,805 corpus weight
- tricote
tricote
38,804 corpus weight
- Trotski
Trotski
38,802 corpus weight
- trépidante
trépidante
38,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tricote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tricote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.kɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tricote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tricote is uncommon French at frequency #61,197 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.kɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maillet de bois utilisé pour le cassage manuel des noix.".
tricote has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tricote, spelled T-R-I-C-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Maillet de bois utilisé pour le cassage manuel des noix.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tricote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les noix étaient cassées avec la tricote sur "la pierre", une lauze fine ou parfois un morceau de marbre, placée sur les genoux. (Michel Carcenac Les énoiseuses sur http://www.histoire-genealogie.com/spip.php?article780)
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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