trappeur
\tʁa.pœʁ\
The verdict
“trappeur” is uncommon French (frequency #53,668 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,668
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chasseur de l’Amérique du Nord, qui se sert ordinairement de trappes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trappeur · trappeur · French
trappeur · rank #53,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,668
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transférant
Nearest frequency peer: transférant (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « trappeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tradi
tradi
46,336 corpus weight
- transfusions
transfusions
46,335 corpus weight
- transférant
transférant
46,334 corpus weight
- trappeur
trappeur
46,333 corpus weight
- traînaient
traînaient
46,332 corpus weight
- trim
trim
46,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trappeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trappeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trappeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trappeur is uncommon French at frequency #53,668 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for trappeur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is trappeur, spelled T-R-A-P-P-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Chasseur de l’Amérique du Nord, qui se sert ordinairement de trappes.
- 2Musicien jouant de la trap.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trappeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre autres manies, mon oncle avait celle de tuer tous les chats qu’il rencontrait. Il faisait, à ces pauvres bêtes, une chasse impitoyable, une guerre acharnée de trappeur.
Même si l’époque des coureurs des bois se trouve loin derrière nous, des trappeurs de l’Est-du-Québec parcourent toujours des centaines de kilomètres dans la forêt chaque année de manière professionnelle.
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); 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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