troglodyte
\tʁɔ.ɡlɔ.dit\
The verdict
“troglodyte” is uncommon French (frequency #79,820 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,820
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné par les Anciens à une race fabuleuse d’hommes cavernicoles qui vivaient en Afrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-troglodyte · troglodyte · French
troglodyte · rank #79,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,820
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trin
Nearest frequency peer: trin (-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 « troglodyte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- travertin
travertin
20,184 corpus weight
- tressées
tressées
20,183 corpus weight
- trin
trin
20,182 corpus weight
- troglodyte
troglodyte
20,181 corpus weight
- trouillard
trouillard
20,180 corpus weight
- TSH
TSH
20,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « troglodyte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troglodyte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.ɡlɔ.dit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « troglodyte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
troglodyte is uncommon French at frequency #79,820 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔ.ɡlɔ.dit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for troglodyte in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 troglodyte, spelled T-R-O-G-L-O-D-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné par les Anciens à une race fabuleuse d’hommes cavernicoles qui vivaient en Afrique.
- 2Habitant d’une demeure creusée dans la roche (caverne ou carrière).
- 3Personne non évoluée, non civilisée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how troglodyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car, sans immigration, il n’y a ni défi lancé aux habitudes invétérées ni plaisir à retrouver ses façons habituelles de faire ; en revanche, quand les habitants de longue date se sentent « envahis », ils coupent les ponts, rentrent dans leur caverne identitaire et se muent en troglodytes.
Soyons clairs, ces conservateurs de centre n’ont rien en commun avec les troglodytes qui ont envahi Ottawa l’hiver dernier et qui ont été félicités et encouragés par Poilievre.
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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