trilingue
\tʁi.lɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“trilingue” is uncommon French (frequency #52,404 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,404
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sait parler trois langues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trilingue · trilingue · French
trilingue · rank #52,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,404
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH travestir
Nearest frequency peer: travestir (-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 « trilingue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- totalisé
totalisé
47,601 corpus weight
- touchantes
touchantes
47,600 corpus weight
- travestir
travestir
47,598 corpus weight
- trilingue
trilingue
47,597 corpus weight
- téléchargés
téléchargés
47,595 corpus weight
- ulster
ulster
47,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trilingue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trilingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁi.lɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trilingue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trilingue is uncommon French at frequency #52,404 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁi.lɛ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for trilingue in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trilingue, spelled T-R-I-L-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui sait parler trois langues.
- 2Qui est écrit en trois langues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trilingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes à la recherche d’une personne trilingue : français-anglais-allemand.
[…] aussi une inscription trilingue, comme celle de Rosette, enjoint-elle en allemand, en anglais et en français, de ne pas parler au pilote, qui ne quitte pas une minute la roue du gouvernail, imprimant à propos de légères déviations au docile pyroscaphe.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).