troisième
\tʁwɑ.zjɛm\
The verdict
“troisième” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #663
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adjectif ordinal correspondant au cardinal trois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-troisieme · troisième · French
troisième · rank #663 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #663
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH source
Nearest frequency peer: source (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “troisième”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- rester
rester
99,341 corpus weight
- sauf
sauf
99,340 corpus weight
- source
source
99,339 corpus weight
- troisième
troisième
99,338 corpus weight
- aider
aider
99,337 corpus weight
- ami
ami
99,336 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “troisième” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | troisième |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁwɑ.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “troisième” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around troisième (IPA \tʁwɑ.zjɛm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #663 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for troisième, with forms such as "rtoisième", "torisième", and "triosième". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "troisièmes", "treizième", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is troisième, spelled T-R-O-I-S-I-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Adjectif ordinal correspondant au cardinal trois.
- 2(Lui troisième, elle troisième ou en troisième) Avec deux autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how troisième appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons déjà dit que les analystes ne sont parvenus jusqu’à présent qu’à la résolution des équations générales du troisième et du quatrième degrés.
L’Espagnol Aleix Espargaro termine troisième de ce Grand Prix et, lui aussi, se rapproche de la tête, à 194 points, 17 unités seulement derrière le leadeur.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtoisième
- torisième
- triosième
- troiisème
- troisieme
- troisimèe
- troisièem
- troisièmme
- troissième
- troisèime
- trosiième
- trroisième
- ttroisième
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of troisième - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "troisième", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "troisième" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "troisièmes". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #663 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "T" letter cohort. T–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.