tripot
\tʁi.po\
The verdict
“tripot” is uncommon French (frequency #74,442 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,442
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison de jeu mal famée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tripot · tripot · French
tripot · rank #74,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,442
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tripe
Nearest frequency peer: tripe (-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 « tripot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- triathlète
triathlète
25,562 corpus weight
- trine
trine
25,561 corpus weight
- tripe
tripe
25,560 corpus weight
- tripot
tripot
25,559 corpus weight
- tripp
tripp
25,558 corpus weight
- tronqués
tronqués
25,557 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tripot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tripot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tripot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tripot is uncommon French at frequency #74,442 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tripot in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tripot, spelled T-R-I-P-O-T.
Definition
- 1Maison de jeu mal famée.
- 2Maison où s’assemble une mauvaise compagnie.
- 3Lieu où l’on a l’avantage, où l’on est le plus fort.
- 4Sorte de moteur d’entraînement des machines mû par un cheval qui marche sur un tapis déroulant.
- 5Batteuse mue par ce dispositif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tripot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier, à Hermosillo, à la suite d’une querelle dans un tripot, il a mis le feu à une maison au risque d’incendier toute la ville.
Seuls, les tripots attiraient encore les joueurs en proie à leur sèche passion. Un soir, en 1836, on ferma toutes les maisons de jeu.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).