trébuchant

\tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\

/\tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trébuchant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for trébuchant
PropertyValue
Headwordtrébuchant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#77,106
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « trébuchant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.trébuchanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « truculent » (#77,105), « trina » (#77,104), « turbot » (#77,108). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trébuchant » est au #77,106. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui trébuche.
  2. 2
    Qui est de poids, en parlant de monnaies d’or et d’argent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how trébuchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il me semble que ce porteur est un peu trébuchant, grâce sans doute, à une absorption trop prolongée de vodka.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trébuchant"?
"trébuchant" is spelled T-R-É-B-U-C-H-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\.
What does "trébuchant" mean?
As an adjective, "trébuchant" means: Qui trébuche.
How do you pronounce "trébuchant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trébuchant" is \tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trébuchant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list