trapu
\tʁa.py\
The verdict
“trapu” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,236
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est large, court et inspire un sentiment de puissance en parlant des hommes et des animaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trapu · trapu · French
trapu · rank #48,236 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,236
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transgresser
Nearest frequency peer: transgresser (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « trapu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tora
Tora
51,768 corpus weight
- tos
tos
51,767 corpus weight
- transgresser
transgresser
51,766 corpus weight
- trapu
trapu
51,765 corpus weight
- travelling
travelling
51,764 corpus weight
- traçant
traçant
51,763 corpus weight
What this shows « trapu » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | trapu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁa.py\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trapu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around trapu (IPA \tʁa.py\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,236 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est large, court et inspire un sentiment de puissance en parlant des hommes et des animaux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for trapu, with forms such as "rtapu", "tarpu", and "trappu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trop", "trou", "trip", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trapu, spelled T-R-A-P-U.
Definition
- 1Qui est large, court et inspire un sentiment de puissance en parlant des hommes et des animaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trapu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les animaux les plus forts et les plus résistants sont ceux qui ont le corps ramassé, trapu, comme l’on dit ; […].
Les femmes, qui sont de taille moyenne et plutôt trapues, portent une robe en vadmel, sorte de flanelle tissée avec la laine qu'elles-mêmes ont cardée et filée.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtapu
- tarpu
- trappu
- traup
- trpau
- trrapu
- ttrapu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trapu - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).