trolleybus
\tʁo.le.bys\
The verdict
“trolleybus” is uncommon French (frequency #67,942 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,942
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule de transport en commun qui roule sur pneumatiques et qui est propulsé par un moteur électrique lequel est relié à des cables aériens électrifiés (caténaires) au moyen de perches mobiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trolleybus · trolleybus · French
trolleybus · rank #67,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,942
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trojan
Nearest frequency peer: trojan (-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 « trolleybus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- triomphera
triomphera
32,062 corpus weight
- triplette
triplette
32,061 corpus weight
- trojan
trojan
32,060 corpus weight
- trolleybus
trolleybus
32,059 corpus weight
- trompera
trompera
32,058 corpus weight
- tuyauteries
tuyauteries
32,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trolleybus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trolleybus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁo.le.bys\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trolleybus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trolleybus is uncommon French at frequency #67,942 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁo.le.bys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Véhicule de transport en commun qui roule sur pneumatiques et qui est propulsé par un moteur électrique lequel est relié à des cables aériens électrifiés (caténaires) au moyen de perches mobiles.".
trolleybus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trolleybus, spelled T-R-O-L-L-E-Y-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Véhicule de transport en commun qui roule sur pneumatiques et qui est propulsé par un moteur électrique lequel est relié à des cables aériens électrifiés (caténaires) au moyen de perches mobiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trolleybus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le retour des tramways que l’on nous promet dans quelques années peut attendre. Comme l’a fait valoir récemment la Chambre de commerce, des trolleybus peuvent aussi bien faire l’affaire.
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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