triturer
\tʁi.ty.ʁe\
The verdict
“triturer” is uncommon French (frequency #82,545 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,545
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Broyer ; réduire en parties très menues ou en poudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-triturer · triturer · French
triturer · rank #82,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trublion
Nearest frequency peer: trublion (+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 « triturer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transportab…
transportables
17,459 corpus weight
- traveller
traveller
17,458 corpus weight
- triturer
triturer
17,456 corpus weight
- trublion
trublion
17,455 corpus weight
- Trébizonde
Trébizonde
17,454 corpus weight
- Trégor
Trégor
17,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « triturer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triturer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁi.ty.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « triturer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
triturer is uncommon French at frequency #82,545 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁi.ty.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
triturer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is triturer, spelled T-R-I-T-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Broyer ; réduire en parties très menues ou en poudre.
- 2Déformer.
- 3Manipuler quelque chose en tous sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how triturer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les médecins prescrivaient leurs ordonnances en mauvais latin et y faisaient entrer par routine une multitude de drogues simples ou composées que l'apothicaire infusait, décoctait, triturait, pulvérisait et mélangeait de mille manières à l'aide de mille procédés minutieux.
[…] ; ces copeaux passent ensuite dans des broyeuses-mélangeuses, […], où ils sont triturés avec une matière colorante et avec un parfum; on agglomère ensuite la matière obtenue […]
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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