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Trott

German, noun/tʁɔt/

Trott is spelled T-R-O-T-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 50,363rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trott is a German masculine noun meaning “jog, trot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “träger, sich wiederholender Fortgang”.

What does Trott mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinejog, trot

  2. 2

    colloquialmasculinerut; routine

    das Leben geht im alten Trott weiter

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. träger, sich wiederholender Fortgang 2. „mittelschnelle Gangart vierbeiniger Tiere, bei der jeweils zwei diagonal gegenüberliegende Beine gleichzeitig vorgesetzt werden“ (von Trab)

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Trott

  • Trottes genitive
  • Trotts genitive
  • Trotte plural
  • Trotten dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Trott?

  • /tʁɔt/
  • [tʁɔt]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Trott in German?

Trott appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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