-trup
[-tʁʊp]
The verdict
“-trup” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ortsnamengrundwort für Dorf
Corpus desk
Index DE-trup · -trup · German
-trup · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -trup |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [-tʁʊp] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „-trup“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
-trup is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [-tʁʊp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ortsnamengrundwort für Dorf".
Zero misspellings are on record for -trup in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is -trup, spelled --T-R-U-P.
Definition
- 1Ortsnamengrundwort für Dorf
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how -trup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ursprünglich hieß Barntrup Barendorf und lag als frühe Siedlung am Schratweg,
This word in other languages
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