trimestre
\tʁi.mɛstʁ\
The verdict
“trimestre” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,198
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace de trois mois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trimestre · trimestre · French
trimestre · rank #5,198 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,198
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trompé
Nearest frequency peer: trompé (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « trimestre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tante
tante
94,807 corpus weight
- temporaire
temporaire
94,806 corpus weight
- this
this
94,805 corpus weight
- trimestre
trimestre
94,803 corpus weight
- trompé
trompé
94,802 corpus weight
- valable
valable
94,800 corpus weight
What this shows « trimestre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | trimestre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.mɛstʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trimestre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around trimestre (IPA \tʁi.mɛstʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,198 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for trimestre, with forms such as "rtimestre", "tirmestre", and "triemstre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "trimestres", "trimestriel", "Trieste", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is trimestre, spelled T-R-I-M-E-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Espace de trois mois.
- 2Ce que l’on paie à quelqu’un au commencement ou à la fin de chaque trimestre.
- 3Élément de calcul de la retraite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trimestre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des intérêts payés par trimestre.
Le premier trimestre de l’année.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtimestre
- tirmestre
- triemstre
- trimesrte
- trimesstre
- trimester
- trimestrre
- trimesttre
- trimetsre
- trimmestre
- trimsetre
- trmiestre
- trrimestre
- ttrimestre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trimestre - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).