trinquent
\tʁɛ̃k\
The verdict
“trinquent” is uncommon French (frequency #54,307 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,307
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de trinquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trinquent · trinquent · French
trinquent · rank #54,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,307
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tringle
Nearest frequency peer: tringle (-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 « trinquent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tournesols
tournesols
45,697 corpus weight
- transbordem…
transbordement
45,696 corpus weight
- tringle
tringle
45,695 corpus weight
- trinquent
trinquent
45,694 corpus weight
- triplex
triplex
45,693 corpus weight
- tripper
tripper
45,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trinquent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trinquent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɛ̃k\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trinquent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trinquent is uncommon French at frequency #54,307 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɛ̃k\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for trinquent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is trinquent, spelled T-R-I-N-Q-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de trinquer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de trinquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trinquent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, que voulez-vous qu’ils fassent ? Qu’ils beuvaillent, fricotent, baffrent, fument la pipe, chantent, dansent, cavalcadent, boustifaillent, tortillent, goinfrent ou pignochent, boulottent, buvotent, lichent, picolent, chopinent, trinquent et qu’ils rotent et qu’ils cuvent ?
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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