tricoter

\tʁi.kɔ.te\

/\tʁi.kɔ.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“tricoter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,495
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exécuter un tissu à mailles, soit à la main, à l’aide d’aiguilles longues et émoussées, soit avec un métier spécial.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tricoter · tricoter · French

tricoter · rank #33,495 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,495
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tribulations

Nearest frequency peer: tribulations (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tricoter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tricoter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tricoter vs tripoter
88% similar
tricoter vs tricot
75% similar
tricoter vs tricher
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tricoter
PropertyValue
Headwordtricoter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tʁi.kɔ.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#33,495
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tricoter »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).tricoterse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tribulations » (#33,494), « trousseau » (#33,496), « tsonga » (#33,497). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tricoter » est au #33,495. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around tricoter (IPA \tʁi.kɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,495 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tricoter, with forms such as "rticoter", "tircoter", and "trcioter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tripoter", "tricot", "tricher", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tricoter, spelled T-R-I-C-O-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Exécuter un tissu à mailles, soit à la main, à l’aide d’aiguilles longues et émoussées, soit avec un métier spécial.
  2. 2
    Avancer à petits pas en ramenant un pied vers l’autre.
  3. 3
    Marcher très vite, courir.
  4. 4
    Remuer sur place les deux pattes avant successivement.
  5. 5
    Concevoir, faire, fabriquer.
  6. 6
    (En parlant d'un disque dur) Faire des lectures/écritures en succession rapide avec un bruit caractéristique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tricoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Aiguilles à tricoter.
  2. La mère Blaise tricotait des bas. Pourquoi mon Dieu, pourquoi tricotait-elle des bas ? Elle en avait dans son armoire plus qu’elle n’en porterait jamais. Elle s’amusait à dépenser de la laine, parce qu’on est bête quand on est vieux. Tous les jours, elle se répétait la même chose et se gâtait le plaisir que l’on goûte à tricoter.

Synonyms

patouner

This word in other languages

knit(English)stricken(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rticoter
  • tircoter
  • trcioter
  • triccoter
  • tricoetr
  • tricoterr
  • tricotre
  • tricotter
  • trictoer
  • triocter
  • trricoter
  • ttricoter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tricoter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

rticoter2tircoter2trcioter2triccoter1tricoetr2tricoterr1tricotre2tricotter1
Edit distance from "tricoter"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tricoter"?
"tricoter" is spelled T-R-I-C-O-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁi.kɔ.te\.
What does "tricoter" mean?
As a verb, "tricoter" means: Exécuter un tissu à mailles, soit à la main, à l’aide d’aiguilles longues et émoussées, soit avec un métier spécial.
What words are commonly confused with "tricoter"?
"tricoter" is commonly confused with "tripoter", "tricot", "tricher". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tricoter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tricoter" is \tʁi.kɔ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tricoter" come from?
"tricoter" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tricoter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tornades#33,490teintées#33,486tartuffe#33,484valaient#33,507

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

taïwanais12 variantstangente12 variantsValverde12 variantsstimulus12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list