triste
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,542
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
triste is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est affligé, qui éprouve du chagrin. Pronounced \tʁist\. It ranks #1,542 in French word frequency. Often confused with trust and twist.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \tʁist\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for triste is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁist\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,542 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for triste, with forms such as "rtiste", "tirste", and "triset". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trust", "twist", "trotte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is triste, spelled T-R-I-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est affligé, qui éprouve du chagrin.
- 2Qui est mélancolique ; qui n’a pas de gaieté.
- 3Qui marque de la tristesse, du chagrin, de la mélancolie.
- 4Se dit également de ce qui est inspiré par le chagrin ou par la mélancolie.
- 5Qui est affligeant ou chagrinant ; qui inspire de la mélancolie.
- 6Qui est obscur, sombre, morose.
- 7Qui est pénible, fâcheux, difficile à supporter; dans cette acception, il ne s’emploie guère qu’avec le verbe être pris impersonnellement.
- 8Qui est malheureux, funeste.
- 9Qui est piètre, regrettable, déplorable; en ce sens, il précède toujours le nom.
- 10Méprisable
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtiste,tirste,triset,trisste,tristte,tritse,trriste,trsite,ttriste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "triste"
Frequency rank: #1,542 in French
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