trébuchet
\tʁe.by.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“trébuchet” is uncommon French (frequency #71,153 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,153
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Engin militaire offensif à contre-poids utilisé au Moyen Âge pour le siège des places fortifiées, souvent confondu avec la catapulte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trebuchet · trébuchet · French
trébuchet · rank #71,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,153
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tréma
Nearest frequency peer: tréma (+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 « trébuchet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- triglycérid…
triglycérides
28,853 corpus weight
- troop
troop
28,852 corpus weight
- troublées
troublées
28,851 corpus weight
- trébuchet
trébuchet
28,848 corpus weight
- tréma
tréma
28,847 corpus weight
- tsigane
tsigane
28,845 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trébuchet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trébuchet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁe.by.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trébuchet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trébuchet is uncommon French at frequency #71,153 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁe.by.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for trébuchet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is trébuchet, spelled T-R-É-B-U-C-H-E-T.
Definition
- 1Engin militaire offensif à contre-poids utilisé au Moyen Âge pour le siège des places fortifiées, souvent confondu avec la catapulte.
- 2Piège à oiseaux, en forme de cage.
- 3Petite balance comportant deux plateaux suspendus à un fléau et destinée à peser avec précision de faibles quantités de matière.
- 4Dispositif, appelé souvent « crochet », qui permet de capturer une dame adverse en donnant deux pièces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trébuchet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet oiseau a donné dans le trébuchet, a été pris au trébuchet.
Au commencement de l'automne, Firmin dit : "Ça y est, j'ai placé mon trébuchet. La planche est graissée. Maintenant, le premier qui touche aux ficelles, dans la trappe ! Il n'y a plus qu'à attendre."
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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