trappe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,052
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
trappe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de porte posée horizontalement sur une ouverture au niveau du sol. Pronounced \tʁap\. Often confused with trapu and troupe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trappe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁap\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trappe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁap\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,052 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for trappe, with forms such as "rtappe", "tarppe", and "trape". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trapu", "troupe", "trompé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is trappe, spelled T-R-A-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de porte posée horizontalement sur une ouverture au niveau du sol.
- 2Cette ouverture elle-même.
- 3Sorte de porte, de fenêtre qui se hausse et qui se baisse dans une coulisse.
- 4Plaque de tôle, de fonte placée dans une cheminée pour la fermer à l’occasion.
- 5Trou que l’on fait en terre et que l’on couvre d’une bascule ou de branchages et de feuillages, afin qu’une bête sauvage, venant à passer sur la bascule ou sur les branchages, tombe dans le trou.
- 6Piège qui écrase un animal : quand la bête s’y engage elle déclenche la chute d’un lourd morceau de bois (la trappe) qui l’écrase. Par métonymie le nom de la pièce qui assomme l’animal a donné son nom au piège. Ce type de piège porte aussi le nom de quatre-de-chiffre.
- 7Dans un piège de type « assommoir », qui écrase l’animal quand il s’y engage, nom donné au morceau de bois ou de métal qui assomme, écrase l’animal.
- 8Maison de trappistes. → voir Trappe
- 9Interruption émise par le processeur en réaction à la détection par le matériel d’une erreur logicielle.
- 10La bouche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtappe,tarppe,trape,trapep,trpape,trrappe,ttrappe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for trappe
Misspelling Variants of "trappe"
Frequency rank: #15,052 in French
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