trapue
\tʁa.py\
The verdict
“trapue” is uncommon French (frequency #91,246 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,246
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de trapu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trapue · trapue · French
trapue · rank #91,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,246
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transporteront
Nearest frequency peer: transporteront (-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 « trapue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transmettai…
transmettaient
8,758 corpus weight
- transporter…
transporteront
8,756 corpus weight
- trapue
trapue
8,755 corpus weight
- traversiers
traversiers
8,754 corpus weight
- tripode
tripode
8,753 corpus weight
- trombinosco…
trombinoscope
8,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trapue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trapue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁa.py\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trapue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trapue is uncommon French at frequency #91,246 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁa.py\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de trapu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trapue in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trapue, spelled T-R-A-P-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de trapu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trapue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacqueline, ma Jacqueline aux joues pleines avec des taches de son sous ses yeux qui ont la pudeur d’une petite mare toute défrissonnée dans une clairière, ma Jacotte trapue, elle aussi maintenant perd son temps à rêvasser, à muser, à faire cette école buissonnière du regard qui oblige à rappeler à l’ordre et à sa fâcher : — Jacotte, allons, allons !
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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