triplette
\tʁi.plɛt\
The verdict
“triplette” is uncommon French (frequency #67,940 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,940
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bicyclette pour trois personnes, analogue au tandem.
Corpus desk
Index FR-triplette · triplette · French
triplette · rank #67,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,940
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triomphera
Nearest frequency peer: triomphera (-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 « triplette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transmetteu…
transmetteurs
32,064 corpus weight
- traversèrent
traversèrent
32,063 corpus weight
- triomphera
triomphera
32,062 corpus weight
- triplette
triplette
32,061 corpus weight
- trojan
trojan
32,060 corpus weight
- trolleybus
trolleybus
32,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « triplette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triplette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.plɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « triplette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
triplette is uncommon French at frequency #67,940 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.plɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for triplette in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is triplette, spelled T-R-I-P-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bicyclette pour trois personnes, analogue au tandem.
- 2Aux jeux de boules, équipe constituée de trois joueurs.
- 3Jeux de trois boules de pétanque.
- 4Ensemble formé par les trois avants.
- 5Multiprise qui comporte trois sorties.
- 6Ensemble des trois enseignements de spécialité choisis par un élève de première.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how triplette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nouvelle bicyclette de course, avec pédalier mesurant hors des manivelles 9 centimètres, n'a jamais été approchée, et le fini de toutes les pièces de leurs triplettes et quadraplettes est insurpassable.
Malgré le temps maussade de dimanche, les joueurs s’étaient rendus nombreux au Boulodrome. Dès huit heures, six triplettes ont été constituées. Toutes ont rivalisé d’entrain et d’adresse. La triplette champion compte un Auxerrois, un Dauphinois et un Nivernais.
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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