tropico
\ˈtrɔ.pi.ko\
The verdict
“tropico” is uncommon French (frequency #78,012 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,012
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tropique, chacun des deux parallèles de la sphère terrestre qui dans l'hémisphère boréal ou austral séparent la zone torride de la zone tempérée. Le soleil y atteint le zénith une fois par an, lors...
Corpus desk
Index FR-tropico · tropico · French
tropico · rank #78,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,012
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tropes
Nearest frequency peer: tropes (-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 « tropico »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- triviaux
triviaux
21,992 corpus weight
- tronçonneus…
tronçonneuses
21,991 corpus weight
- tropes
tropes
21,990 corpus weight
- tropico
tropico
21,989 corpus weight
- trotskystes
trotskystes
21,988 corpus weight
- tutto
tutto
21,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tropico » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tropico |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtrɔ.pi.ko\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tropico » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tropico is uncommon French at frequency #78,012 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtrɔ.pi.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tropico, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tropico, spelled T-R-O-P-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1Tropique, chacun des deux parallèles de la sphère terrestre qui dans l'hémisphère boréal ou austral séparent la zone torride de la zone tempérée. Le soleil y atteint le zénith une fois par an, lors des solstices et aux latitudes de ±23° 26′.
- 2Tropique, chacun des deux parallèles de la sphère céleste qui passent par les points solsticiaux, c'est-à-dire à la verticale d’un tropique sur la Terre.
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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