tripes

Name: tripes, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\tʁip\

/\tʁip\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“tripes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,179
frequency rank, French: 3,703
“T” headwords: 9
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat à base de morceaux du système digestif, dans une sauce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tripes · tripes · French

tripes · rank #19,179 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #19,179
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 9 variants
BOOK-MID 3,703
PHOTO-FINISH traumatique

Nearest frequency peer: traumatique (-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.

three

80,825
Traoré

80,824
traumatique

80,823
tripes

80,822
tunique

80,821
valse

80,819

What this shows « tripes » 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).

tripes vs tris

67% similar

tripes vs types

67% similar

tripes vs trips

83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tripes
Property	Value
Headword	tripes
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\tʁip\
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#19,179
Misspellings tracked	9
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tripes »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tripesse place ici:

#19,179

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « traumatique » (#19,178), « tunique » (#19,180), « Traoré » (#19,177). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tripes » est au #19,179. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around tripes (IPA \tʁip\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,179 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tripes, with forms such as "rtipes", "tirpes", and "trieps". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tris", "types", "trips", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tripes, spelled T-R-I-P-E-S.

Definition

1
Plat à base de morceaux du système digestif, dans une sauce.
2
Courage, hardiesse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tripes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Ils vous gargantuaient de ces cuisses, de ces épaules, de ces chaudrons de tripes, avec des doigts et des gosiers d’amiante !

This word in other languages

tripe(English)tripa(Español)Kutteln(Deutsch)dobrada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

rtipes
tirpes
trieps
tripess
trippes
tripse
trpies
trripes
ttripes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tripes - 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.

Edit distance from "tripes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tripes"?

"tripes" is spelled T-R-I-P-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁip\.

What does "tripes" mean?

As a noun, "tripes" means: Plat à base de morceaux du système digestif, dans une sauce.

What words are commonly confused with "tripes"?

"tripes" is commonly confused with "tris", "types", "trips". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "tripes"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tripes" is \tʁip\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "tripes" come from?

"tripes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tripes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Traoré#19,177 vestes#19,183 textos#19,174 virale#19,186

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

tunique9 variants Villers9 variants volaille9 variants stéréo9 variants