trappe
\tʁap\
The verdict
“trappe” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #15,052 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,052
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sorte de porte posée horizontalement sur une ouverture au niveau du sol.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “trappe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trappe is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for trappe, with forms such as "rtappe", "tarppe", and "trape". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trapu", "troupe", "trompé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trappe, spelled T-R-A-P-P-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtappe,tarppe,trape,trapep,trpape,trrappe,ttrappe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trappe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “trappe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-P-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁap\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “trapu” - see the side-by-side comparison. trappe vs trapu
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.