Troubadour
[tʁuːbaˈduːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Troubadour” is an uncommon German word, ranked #84,685 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #84,685
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - provenzalischer Dichter, Komponist oder Sänger höfischer Liebeslieder des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Troubadour |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁuːbaˈduːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Troubadour” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Troubadour is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʁuːbaˈduːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,685 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "provenzalischer Dichter, Komponist oder Sänger höfischer Liebeslieder des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Troubadour, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Troubadour, spelled T-R-O-U-B-A-D-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1provenzalischer Dichter, Komponist oder Sänger höfischer Liebeslieder des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts
This word in other languages
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 “Troubadour”
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- The one correct German spelling is T-R-O-U-B-A-D-O-U-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.