trivial
French, adjective/tʁi.vjal/
trivial is spelled T-R-I-V-I-A-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trivial is a French adjective meaning “trivial (common, easy, obvious)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est extrêmement commun, usé, rebattu ; il ne se dit guère que des pensées et des expressions”.
What does trivial mean in English?
adjective
- 1
trivial (common, easy, obvious)
- 2
ordinary, mundane, commonplace
- 3
inelegant, unrefined (especially of a person's language)
- 4
crass, crude, vulgar, obscene (words, language, behavior, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est extrêmement commun, usé, rebattu ; il ne se dit guère que des pensées et des expressions. 2. Sans grande importance. 3. Qui est facile, aisé. 4. Qui est vulgaire, grossier.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of trivial
- triviale feminine
- triviaux masculine plural
- triviales feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trivial?
- /tʁi.vjal/
- \tʁi.vjal\
- [tʁi.vjal]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trivial
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trivial in French?
trivial appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).