Free Tritype Test: Your Core Type Plus Two
This free tritype test is part of the Ninelings Enneagram test. You answer 54 statements once, and the same answers give you your core type, your wing and your tritype: the strongest type in each of the three centers, core type first.
Free · in English · no sign-up · 54 statements: your type, wing and tritype
About ten minutes. No account, and your answers never leave your browser.
Why look at your tritype
Your core type describes your main pattern, but most people also recognize themselves in parts of other types. The tritype idea gives that a structure: one type from each center, gut (8, 9, 1), heart (2, 3, 4) and head (5, 6, 7), written with the core type first.
Where the idea comes from and how the notation works is covered in our tritype article. This page is about the test: how it finds your three numbers and how to read them.
How our tritype test works
There is no separate questionnaire. You take the free Enneagram test, which asks 54 statements, 6 for each of the nine types, and adds up a score for every type. For your tritype it looks at the three types of each center and takes the one with the highest score there.
Your core type is the highest score overall, so it is automatically the strongest type in its own center. The other two centers each add their top type. The result page shows the three numbers as one line, for example 4-7-1. It does not show separate center scores.
What the order means
The first number is always your core type. The second and third follow by score: whichever of the two remaining center types scored higher comes first. If both scored exactly the same, the order follows the centers: gut before heart, heart before head.
So 4-7-1 and 4-1-7 name the same three types. The difference is only which of the two supporting types came out stronger in your answers.
When you get no tritype
Sometimes the result has no tritype line. That is deliberate. If two types share the top score, if your answers came out fairly even across all nine types, or if two types are tied for the top spot inside one center, the test would have to guess. It leaves the tritype out instead of flipping a coin.
Your type result and the profiles are still there: every tied type after a tie at the top, your two leanings after a flat profile, and otherwise your core type and runner-up. Retaking the test later and answering with your first instinct often gives a clearer picture.
27 possible combinations
With three types per center there are 27 possible sets of three, such as 1-2-5 or 8-3-7. The same set can be written in different orders depending on which type is your core and which supporting type is stronger. Each combination has its own mix of gut, heart and head reactions; our tritype article explains how people use them.
Our test and Fauvre’s Enneagram Tritype Test
The tritype idea was developed by Katherine Chernick Fauvre, who also created the Enneagram Tritype Test. Her test is a separate instrument built for this purpose. Ours is not a version of it and does not claim to give the same results.
What we offer is a quick derivation: a core-type test whose scores are read a second time, center by center. If your tritype matters to you, treat our result as a starting point and compare it with other sources and your own reading of the profiles.
Check your result against the profiles
A score can only reflect how you answered. Read the nine type profiles for your three numbers and ask yourself, center by center, which type you really reach for. If a different type in one center fits better, trust that over the number.
Keep in mind that the Enneagram is a popular typology, not a scientifically validated diagnostic. The details of the scoring are on how the test works.
Example result: 4-7-1 (an illustration, not a real person)
Say Type 4 scored highest of all nine types. That makes 4 the core type and the heart center’s pick. In the head center, 7 scored above 5 and 6; in the gut center, 1 scored above 8 and 9. Type 7 had the higher score of those two, so the tritype reads 4-7-1. Had Type 1 scored higher than 7, it would read 4-1-7.
Frequently asked questions
Is the tritype test free?
Yes. The tritype is part of the free Ninelings test. There is no account, no email and no paid report.
How long does the tritype test take?
About ten minutes. It is the same 54 statements as the core type test, so one run gives you your core type, wing and tritype together.
Can my tritype change?
In the tritype model the three types are seen as stable, like the core type. Your test result can still differ between runs, because small shifts in how you answer can change which type comes out on top in a center or which supporting type comes second.
Why did my result not show a tritype?
The test leaves the tritype out when it would have to guess: when two types share the top score, when your answers are fairly even across all nine types, or when two types in one center are tied.
Is this the same as Katherine Fauvre’s Enneagram Tritype Test?
No. Katherine Chernick Fauvre developed the tritype idea and her own Enneagram Tritype Test, which is a separate instrument. Our result is a quick derivation from a core-type test and makes no claim to match hers.
How accurate is the tritype result?
There are no reliability or validity figures for this test, and we do not claim any. The result reflects your answers and is best used as a starting point for reading the profiles. See how the test works for the exact rules.