tricycle
\tʁi.sikl\
The verdict
“tricycle” is uncommon French (frequency #51,792 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,792
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cycle à trois roues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tricycle · tricycle · French
tricycle · rank #51,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,792
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tribuns
Nearest frequency peer: tribuns (-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 « tricycle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- translate
translate
48,212 corpus weight
- transmettez
transmettez
48,211 corpus weight
- tribuns
tribuns
48,210 corpus weight
- tricycle
tricycle
48,209 corpus weight
- Turkestan
Turkestan
48,207 corpus weight
- TWh
TWh
48,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tricycle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tricycle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.sikl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tricycle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tricycle is uncommon French at frequency #51,792 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.sikl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cycle à trois roues.".
tricycle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tricycle, spelled T-R-I-C-Y-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Cycle à trois roues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tricycle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vélocipédie était naturellement de la fête, un tricycle amène deux amateurs munis de leurs engins de pêche.
Non seulement Lesclide profite de la vogue du grand bi, du bicycle et du tricycle pour obtenir l'autorisation de faire paraître son hebdomadaire, mais de plus, le dessin est associé à l'écrit.
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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