cheval de Troie
\ʃə.val də tʁwa\
The verdict
“cheval de Troie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grand cheval de bois imaginé par Ulysse lors de la guerre de Troie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheval de Troie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.val də tʁwa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cheval de Troie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cheval de Troie is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.val də tʁwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cheval de Troie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cheval de Troie, spelled C-H-E-V-A-L- -D-E- -T-R-O-I-E.
Definition
- 1Grand cheval de bois imaginé par Ulysse lors de la guerre de Troie.
- 2Manœuvre d’infiltration ou de sape, pour circonvenir ou détruire un adversaire.
- 3Logiciel installé ou téléchargé et au sein duquel a été dissimulé un programme malveillant qui peut par exemple permettre la collecte frauduleuse, la falsification ou la destruction de données.
- 4Manœuvre du gouvernement fédéral pour agir dans des domaines de compétence provinciale.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “cheval de Troie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-V-A-L- -D-E- -T-R-O-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃə.val də tʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.