throuple
throup·le/ˈθɹʌp.əl/noun
throuple is a noun meaning “Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-U-P-L-E and has 2 syllables (throup·le), and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of throuple is throuples.
What does throuple mean?
noun
- 1
Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce throuple?
- /ˈθɹʌp.əl/
Throuple has 2 syllables, split throup·le in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-throuple.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of throuple
- throuples plural
- thrupple
- thruple
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is throuple?
Throuple appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Throuple in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense three partners:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does throuple come from?
Blend of three + couple.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).