troupe
/tɹuːp/
"troupe" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“troupe” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,103
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-troupe · troupe · English
troupe · rank #21,103 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,103
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH trickle
Nearest frequency peer: trickle (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “troupe”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- towering
towering
78,902 corpus weight
- triathlon
triathlon
78,900 corpus weight
- trickle
trickle
78,899 corpus weight
- troupe
troupe
78,898 corpus weight
- tweed
tweed
78,896 corpus weight
- ultimatum
ultimatum
78,895 corpus weight
What this shows “troupe” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troupe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɹuːp/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “troupe”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around troupe (IPA /tɹuːp/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,103 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for troupe, with forms such as "rtoupe", "torupe", and "tropue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "true", "trout", "truce", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp. The correct English form is troupe, spelled T-R-O-U-P-E.
Definition
- 1A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
- 2Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how troupe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party
Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.
Etymology
Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtoupe
- torupe
- tropue
- trouep
- trouppe
- trroupe
- truope
- ttroupe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of troupe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "troupe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).