tristouille
\tʁis.tuj\
The verdict
“tristouille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Triste, maussade ; qui inspire de la tristesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tristouille · tristouille · French
tristouille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tristouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁis.tuj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tristouille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁis.tuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Triste, maussade ; qui inspire de la tristesse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tristouille, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
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 tristouille, spelled T-R-I-S-T-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Triste, maussade ; qui inspire de la tristesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tristouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne pleuvait plus. Il faisait gris, venteux, tristouille.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.