trembleur
\tʁɑ̃.blœʁ\
The verdict
“trembleur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tremble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trembleur · trembleur · French
trembleur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trembleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.blœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trembleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trembleur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.blœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for trembleur in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is trembleur, spelled T-R-E-M-B-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui tremble.
- 2Qui est trop timoré, trop craintif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trembleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, dans la gloire du jour, des coulées lumineuses affluent à tes tempes parées d’un éclat solaire, des rayons y serpentent comme sur les avoines trembleuses et les blés murmurants.
— M. de Pontlevé est surtout avare et trembleur, et il redoutait l’influence du caractère décidé de madame de Constantin.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.