trolley
\tʁɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“trolley” is uncommon French (frequency #65,589 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,589
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roulette qui, en se mouvant sur un câble aérien, sert de prise de courant à un tramway électrique auquel elle est reliée par une longue perche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trolley · trolley · French
trolley · rank #65,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,589
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trouvable
Nearest frequency peer: trouvable (+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 « trolley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tridimensio…
tridimensionnelle
34,415 corpus weight
- trient
trient
34,414 corpus weight
- trolley
trolley
34,412 corpus weight
- trouvable
trouvable
34,411 corpus weight
- trucages
trucages
34,410 corpus weight
- Tubize
Tubize
34,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trolley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trolley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trolley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trolley is uncommon French at frequency #65,589 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for trolley, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trolley, spelled T-R-O-L-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Roulette qui, en se mouvant sur un câble aérien, sert de prise de courant à un tramway électrique auquel elle est reliée par une longue perche.
- 2Trolleybus.
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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