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trull

/tɹʌl/noun

trull is spelled T-R-U-L-L: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trull means “A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trull is trulls.

How many letters and syllables are in trull?

Letters5: T-R-U-L-L
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is trull?

Trull appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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).

How do you pronounce trull?

  • /tɹʌl/

Trull has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-trull.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of trull

  • trulls plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does trull mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.

  2. 2

    archaicA female prostitute or harlot.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does trull come from?

From French tous les trois (“all three”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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