trinquer
\tʁɛ̃.ke\
The verdict
“trinquer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,239
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boire en choquant, cognant les verres en signe de joie, pour marquer son amitié ou pour faire un vœu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trinquer · trinquer · French
trinquer · rank #44,239 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,239
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tremblez
Nearest frequency peer: tremblez (-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 « trinquer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traumatiques
traumatiques
55,765 corpus weight
- travestis
travestis
55,764 corpus weight
- tremblez
tremblez
55,763 corpus weight
- trinquer
trinquer
55,762 corpus weight
- turtle
turtle
55,761 corpus weight
- tutoie
tutoie
55,760 corpus weight
What this shows « trinquer » 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 | trinquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɛ̃.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trinquer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around trinquer (IPA \tʁɛ̃.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,239 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for trinquer, with forms such as "rtinquer", "tirnquer", and "trinnquer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "trique", "tronqué", "troquer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is trinquer, spelled T-R-I-N-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Boire en choquant, cognant les verres en signe de joie, pour marquer son amitié ou pour faire un vœu.
- 2Subir un dommage, un désagrément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trinquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les verres étant emplis l’on trinqua et l’on but, puis il y eut entre les deux hommes un assez long silence lourd de gêne.
Je bois aux blondes, je bois aux brunes, et je ne vois pas pourquoi nous ne trinquerions pas à ta tante Picard qui en valait deux à elle seule.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtinquer
- tirnquer
- trinnquer
- trinqeur
- trinqquer
- trinquerr
- trinqure
- trinuqer
- triqnuer
- trniquer
- trrinquer
- ttrinquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trinquer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trinquer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).