trictrac
\tʁik.tʁak\
The verdict
“trictrac” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit que fait le fusil lorsqu’on l’arme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trictrac · trictrac · French
trictrac · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trictrac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \tʁik.tʁak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
trictrac is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \tʁik.tʁak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bruit que fait le fusil lorsqu’on l’arme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for trictrac, 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trictrac, spelled T-R-I-C-T-R-A-C.
Definition
- 1Bruit que fait le fusil lorsqu’on l’arme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trictrac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soudain ils entendirent le trictrac d’un fusil qu’on armait.
Est-ce qu’on ne joue pas au jacquet derrière moi, dans le salon ?… Non ! ce sont des francs-tireurs qui chargent et déchargent leurs chassepots. Détonation à part, c’est tout à fait le bruit du trictrac…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.