tristesses
\tʁis.tɛs\
The verdict
“tristesses” is uncommon French (frequency #76,192 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,192
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tristesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tristesses · tristesses · French
tristesses · rank #76,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,192
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tringler
Nearest frequency peer: tringler (-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 « tristesses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trials
trials
23,813 corpus weight
- trices
trices
23,812 corpus weight
- tringler
tringler
23,810 corpus weight
- tristesses
tristesses
23,809 corpus weight
- Trottier
Trottier
23,807 corpus weight
- Udine
Udine
23,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tristesses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tristesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁis.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tristesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tristesses is uncommon French at frequency #76,192 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁis.tɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tristesse.".
tristesses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tristesses, spelled T-R-I-S-T-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tristesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tristesses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fallait ramener le public au réel, à la vérité, aux choses dignes de commisération ; il était utile de le désefféminer, de lui montrer, en l’intéressant, la vie rude, nerveuse, aride, dans ses manifestations de chaque jour, dans ses luttes, dans ses drames du grand monde ; de lui faire palper les tristesses de la bourgeoisie et les misères des bas-fond…
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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