tristement
\tʁis.tə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“tristement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,028. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,028
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière triste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tristement · tristement · French
tristement · rank #17,028 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,028
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trading
Nearest frequency peer: trading (-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 « tristement »
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82,976 corpus weight
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toxicité
82,975 corpus weight
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trading
82,974 corpus weight
- tristement
tristement
82,973 corpus weight
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82,972 corpus weight
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téléphoner
82,971 corpus weight
What this shows « tristement » 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 | tristement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \tʁis.tə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tristement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around tristement (IPA \tʁis.tə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #17,028 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for tristement, with forms such as "rtistement", "tirstement", and "trisetment". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "traitement", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tristement, spelled T-R-I-S-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière triste.
- 2D’une manière fâcheuse, misérable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tristement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] et, songeant qu’il faudrait bientôt nous quitter, nous nous assîmes tristement près de l’âtre où dansait la flamme rouge.
Un mort s’en allait tristement s’emparer de son dernier gîte […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtistement
- tirstement
- trisetment
- trisstement
- tristeemnt
- tristemennt
- tristementt
- tristemetn
- tristemment
- tristemnet
- tristmeent
- tristtement
- tritsement
- trristement
- trsitement
- ttristement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tristement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).