tripoli
\tʁi.pɔ.li\
The verdict
“tripoli” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,255
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de terre d’un jaune rougeâtre et d’un grain très fin, composée presque entièrement de silice, dont on se servait pour polir les glaces, les métaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tripoli · tripoli · French
tripoli · rank #16,255 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,255
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triangulaire
Nearest frequency peer: triangulaire (-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 « tripoli »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transversale
transversale
83,749 corpus weight
- travaillez
travaillez
83,748 corpus weight
- triangulaire
triangulaire
83,747 corpus weight
- tripoli
tripoli
83,746 corpus weight
- Troie
Troie
83,745 corpus weight
- trompette
trompette
83,744 corpus weight
What this shows « tripoli » 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 | tripoli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.pɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tripoli »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tripoli (IPA \tʁi.pɔ.li\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,255 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sorte de terre d’un jaune rougeâtre et d’un grain très fin, composée presque entièrement de silice, dont on se servait pour polir les glaces, les métaux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tripoli, with forms such as "rtipoli", "tirpoli", and "triopli". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "triple", "Tivoli", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tripoli, spelled T-R-I-P-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1Sorte de terre d’un jaune rougeâtre et d’un grain très fin, composée presque entièrement de silice, dont on se servait pour polir les glaces, les métaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tripoli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On prétend que le Tripoli est une pierre, laquelle est devenue légère par le moyen de certaines veines de terre soufreuse qui ont brûlé sous ce tripoli, & lui a donné la qualité de blanchir, tripolir ou éclaircir le cuivre.
À cet effet, on saupoudre la plaque de tripoli et on frotte à sec avec un tampon de coton ; on remet du tripoli à plusieurs reprises, en ayant soin de changer souvent de coton.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtipoli
- tirpoli
- triopli
- triploi
- tripoil
- tripolli
- trippoli
- trpioli
- trripoli
- ttripoli
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tripoli - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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