trabant
\tʁa.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“trabant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Valet, garde du corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trabant · trabant · French
trabant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trabant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trabant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trabant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Valet, garde du corps.".
trabant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trabant, spelled T-R-A-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Valet, garde du corps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trabant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant le carosse quatre laquais, à chaque portière un trabant avec sa hallebarde.
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.