tripotée
\tʁi.pɔ.te\
The verdict
“tripotée” is uncommon French (frequency #71,978 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,978
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volée de coups.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tripotee · tripotée · French
tripotée · rank #71,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,978
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trempage
Nearest frequency peer: trempage (-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 « tripotée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transexuelle
transexuelle
28,027 corpus weight
- Trautmann
Trautmann
28,026 corpus weight
- traversais
traversais
28,025 corpus weight
- trempage
trempage
28,024 corpus weight
- tripotée
tripotée
28,023 corpus weight
- trotskyste
trotskyste
28,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tripotée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tripotée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.pɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tripotée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tripotée is uncommon French at frequency #71,978 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.pɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tripotée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tripotée, spelled T-R-I-P-O-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Volée de coups.
- 2Grande quantité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tripotée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- N’importe, dit Léa de Horn pour conclure, ce Bismarck va nous flanquer une jolie tripotée… Elle ne put continuer. Ces dames se jetaient sur elle. Hein ? Quoi ? Une tripotée ! C’était Bismarck qu’on allait reconduire chez lui, à coups de crosse dans le dos. Avait-elle fini, cette mauvaise Française !
En arrivant au quartier, l’autre matin, il apprit que deux hommes de sa compagnie s’étaient flanqué une abominable tripotée.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).