Tross
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,876
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Tross is aGermannoun. It means: unterstützende Versorgungs- und Transporteinheit für die militärische Truppe Pronounced [tʁɔs]. Often confused with trotz and trost.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tross |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁɔs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tross is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʁɔs]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,876 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Tross, with forms such as "rtoss", "torss", and "tros". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trotz", "trost", "trust", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Tross, spelled T-R-O-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unterstützende Versorgungs- und Transporteinheit für die militärische Truppe
- 2großes Gefolge an Menschen oder Fahrzeugen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtoss,torss,tros,troß,trross,trsos,ttross
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Tross"
Frequency rank: #42,876 in German
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