tro
\ˈtroː\
The verdict
“tro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,579) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,579
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour (du verbe tourner).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tro · tro · French
tro · rank #29,579 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,579
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH troisièmement
Nearest frequency peer: troisièmement (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tro »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- transposer
transposer
70,425 corpus weight
- tribun
tribun
70,424 corpus weight
- tro
tro
70,422 corpus weight
- troisièmeme…
troisièmement
70,421 corpus weight
- télégraphe
télégraphe
70,420 corpus weight
- téléthon
téléthon
70,419 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tro » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtroː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tro »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tro is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈtroː\. Frequency #29,579 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tro, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "TS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 tro, spelled T-R-O.
Definition
- 1Tour (du verbe tourner).
- 2Circuit.
- 3Occasion.
- 4Ronde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pa oa ar prosesïon oh ober tro ar vered.
Te n’az-pez gwenneg ebed kammed pa vez da dro da baeañ.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).