trimaran
\tʁi.ma.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“trimaran” is uncommon French (frequency #54,973 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,973
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bateau à voile multicoque comptant une coque centrale et deux flotteurs latéraux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trimaran · trimaran · French
trimaran · rank #54,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,973
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tricia
Nearest frequency peer: Tricia (-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 « trimaran »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- travaillero…
travaillerons
45,031 corpus weight
- trees
trees
45,030 corpus weight
- Tricia
Tricia
45,029 corpus weight
- trimaran
trimaran
45,028 corpus weight
- Tritium
Tritium
45,027 corpus weight
- tronches
tronches
45,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trimaran » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trimaran |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.ma.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trimaran » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trimaran is uncommon French at frequency #54,973 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.ma.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bateau à voile multicoque comptant une coque centrale et deux flotteurs latéraux.".
trimaran has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trimaran, spelled T-R-I-M-A-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Bateau à voile multicoque comptant une coque centrale et deux flotteurs latéraux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trimaran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les maxi-trimarans sont d’ailleurs des homothéties de ces mêmes trimarans Orma.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).