trille
\tʁij\
The verdict
“trille” is uncommon French (frequency #97,506 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,506
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Battement rapide et prolongé de deux notes conjointes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trille · trille · French
trille · rank #97,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,506
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Triel
Nearest frequency peer: Triel (-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 « trille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- traçait
traçait
2,499 corpus weight
- trempait
trempait
2,498 corpus weight
- Triel
Triel
2,496 corpus weight
- trille
trille
2,495 corpus weight
- triment
triment
2,494 corpus weight
- tripoté
tripoté
2,493 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁij\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trille is uncommon French at frequency #97,506 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
trille doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 trille, spelled T-R-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Battement rapide et prolongé de deux notes conjointes.
- 2Son roulé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mélodie se terminait à chaque stance par ces trilles chevrotants que font valoir si bien les voix jeunes, quand elles imitent par un frisson modulé la voix tremblante des aïeules
Allons ! maistre en herbe, n'étudiez plus la trille et la cadence avec votre gosier.
Synonyms
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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