trébuchant
\tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“trébuchant” is uncommon French (frequency #77,106 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,106
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui trébuche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trebuchant · trébuchant · French
trébuchant · rank #77,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,106
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH truculent
Nearest frequency peer: truculent (-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 « trébuchant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- treuils
treuils
22,898 corpus weight
- trina
trina
22,897 corpus weight
- truculent
truculent
22,896 corpus weight
- trébuchant
trébuchant
22,895 corpus weight
- turbot
turbot
22,893 corpus weight
- Tuvalu
Tuvalu
22,892 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trébuchant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trébuchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trébuchant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trébuchant is uncommon French at frequency #77,106 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for trébuchant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trébuchant, spelled T-R-É-B-U-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui trébuche.
- 2Qui est de poids, en parlant de monnaies d’or et d’argent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trébuchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me semble que ce porteur est un peu trébuchant, grâce sans doute, à une absorption trop prolongée de vodka.
Par malheur en effet la colique sévissait dans le fourgon et malgré des prodiges de bonne volonté, d’équilibre et d’adresse, l’usage de ces minuscule tinettes parmi les coliquards entassés et trébuchants provoquait des accidents dont on ne devait rire, vraiment de bon cœur, que par la suite.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).