# troupe

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɹuːp/ · frequency rank #21,103

## Definitions
1. A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
2. Any group of people working together on a shared activity.

## Etymology
Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.

## Easily confused with
- **true** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troupe-vs-true)
- **trout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troupe-vs-trout)
- **truce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troupe-vs-truce)
- **trove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troupe-vs-trove)
- **trouser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troupe-vs-trouser)
- **troop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troop-vs-troupe)
- **trope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trope-vs-troupe)
- **Toure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toure-vs-troupe)
- **tripe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tripe-vs-troupe)
- **troops** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troops-vs-troupe)
- **trough** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trough-vs-troupe)
- **thorpe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thorpe-vs-troupe)
- **trouble** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trouble-vs-troupe)
- **trooper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trooper-vs-troupe)

## Common misspellings (8)
`rtoupe`, `torupe`, `tropue`, `trouep`, `trouppe`, `trroupe`, `truope`, `ttroupe`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/troupe