Trottoir
[tʁɔˈto̯aːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Trottoir” is an uncommon German word, ranked #83,398 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,398
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (durch eine Bordsteinkante von der Fahrbahn abgegrenzter, erhöhter) Weg für Fußgänger und Fußgängerinnen, der entlang einer Straße führt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Trottoir |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁɔˈto̯aːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Trottoir” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Trottoir is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʁɔˈto̯aːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,398 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(durch eine Bordsteinkante von der Fahrbahn abgegrenzter, erhöhter) Weg für Fußgänger und Fußgängerinnen, der entlang einer Straße führt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Trottoir in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Trottoir, spelled T-R-O-T-T-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1(durch eine Bordsteinkante von der Fahrbahn abgegrenzter, erhöhter) Weg für Fußgänger und Fußgängerinnen, der entlang einer Straße führt
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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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Trottoir”
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- The one correct German spelling is T-R-O-T-T-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.