trinken
\ˈtʁɪŋ.kən\
The verdict
“trinken” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trinken · trinken · French
trinken · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trinken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtʁɪŋ.kən\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
trinken is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtʁɪŋ.kən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for trinken, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 trinken, spelled T-R-I-N-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Boire.
- 2Boire de l’alcool avec excès ; s’enivrer.
- 3Être alcoolique, faire abus de l'alcool.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trinken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie hat das ganze Bier getrunken!
Kinder sollten jeden Tag Milch trinken.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.