trognon
\tʁɔ.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“trognon” is uncommon French (frequency #54,310 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,310
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le cœur, le milieu d’un fruit ou d’un légume dont on a ôté tout ce qu’il y avait à manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trognon · trognon · French
trognon · rank #54,310 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,310
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tripper
Nearest frequency peer: tripper (-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 « trognon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trinquent
trinquent
45,694 corpus weight
- triplex
triplex
45,693 corpus weight
- tripper
tripper
45,692 corpus weight
- trognon
trognon
45,691 corpus weight
- truquée
truquée
45,690 corpus weight
- Tsai
Tsai
45,689 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trognon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trognon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trognon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trognon is uncommon French at frequency #54,310 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔ.ɲɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for trognon in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is trognon, spelled T-R-O-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Le cœur, le milieu d’un fruit ou d’un légume dont on a ôté tout ce qu’il y avait à manger.
- 2Ce qui reste d'un objet dont une partie a été consommée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trognon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Épluchez la pomme, retirez le trognon et coupez-la en fines lamelles.
il glissait sur le lit épais d’épluchures et de trognons qui couvrait la chaussée,.
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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