trie
\tʁi\
The verdict
“trie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,000) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,000
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opération de tri, en particulier en ce qui concerne les poissons ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-trie · trie · French
trie · rank #28,000 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,000
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triché
Nearest frequency peer: triché (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « trie »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- transgenre
transgenre
72,005 corpus weight
- traçabilité
traçabilité
72,004 corpus weight
- triché
triché
72,002 corpus weight
- trie
trie
72,001 corpus weight
- tropicaux
tropicaux
72,000 corpus weight
- tsé
tsé
71,999 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « trie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | trie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « trie »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for trie is neighbouring look-alikes ("tué", "try", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tʁi\. Frequency #28,000 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for trie, with forms such as "trei", "trrie", and "ttrie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tué", "try", "tsé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trie, spelled T-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Opération de tri, en particulier en ce qui concerne les poissons ^([1]).
- 2Fait de vendanger en plusieurs fois, dans le but de faire des vins différents.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- trei
- trrie
- ttrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).