curse like a trooper
"curse-like-a-trooper" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“curse like a trooper” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of swear like a trooper.
Corpus desk
Index EN-curse-like-a-trooper · curse like a trooper · English
curse like a trooper · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | curse like a trooper |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “curse like a trooper” in English
Rare enough to double-check
curse like a trooper is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of swear like a trooper.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for curse like a trooper, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is curse like a trooper, spelled C-U-R-S-E- -L-I-K-E- -A- -T-R-O-O-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Synonym of swear like a trooper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how curse like a trooper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bless me! she curses and storms at me like a trooper[.]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.