tricoter
\tʁi.kɔ.te\
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
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Exécuter un tissu à mailles, soit à la main, à l’aide d’aiguilles longues et émoussées, soit avec un métier spécial.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tricoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁi.kɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tricoter” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tricoter (IPA \tʁi.kɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,495 among 164,488 “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
- 1Exécuter un tissu à mailles, soit à la main, à l’aide d’aiguilles longues et émoussées, soit avec un métier spécial.
- 2Avancer à petits pas en ramenant un pied vers l’autre.
- 3Marcher très vite, courir.
- 4Remuer sur place les deux pattes avant successivement.
- 5Concevoir, faire, fabriquer.
- 6(En parlant d'un disque dur) Faire des lectures/écritures en succession rapide avec un bruit caractéristique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “tricoter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-I-C-O-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁi.kɔ.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tripoter” - see the side-by-side comparison. tricoter vs tripoter
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.