triolet
\tʁi.jɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“triolet” is uncommon French (frequency #61,952 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,952
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite pièce de poésie de huit vers, dont le premier se répète après le troisième, et ce premier et le second après le sixième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-triolet · triolet · French
triolet · rank #61,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,952
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traînés
Nearest frequency peer: traînés (-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 « triolet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tourbière
tourbière
38,052 corpus weight
- traveler
traveler
38,051 corpus weight
- traînés
traînés
38,050 corpus weight
- triolet
triolet
38,049 corpus weight
- tritons
tritons
38,048 corpus weight
- trout
trout
38,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « triolet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triolet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.jɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « triolet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
triolet is uncommon French at frequency #61,952 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.jɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for triolet in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is triolet, spelled T-R-I-O-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petite pièce de poésie de huit vers, dont le premier se répète après le troisième, et ce premier et le second après le sixième.
- 2Groupe de trois noires valant une blanche, de trois croches valant une noire, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how triolet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire un triolet.
Caresser les touches, et se lancer dans le flot incessant, soutenu, inépuisable de triolets. Beethoven la guide par ces mots posés au-dessus de la première portée : Si deve suonare tutto questo pezzo delicatissimamente e senza sordino.
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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