trolling
\tʁɔ.liŋ\
The verdict
“trolling” is uncommon French (frequency #98,590 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,590
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trollage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trolling · trolling · French
trolling · rank #98,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,590
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trithérapie
Nearest frequency peer: trithérapie (-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 « trolling »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trimestriel…
trimestriellement
1,414 corpus weight
- tripartites
tripartites
1,413 corpus weight
- trithérapie
trithérapie
1,412 corpus weight
- trolling
trolling
1,411 corpus weight
- tropic
tropic
1,410 corpus weight
- truque
truque
1,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trolling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trolling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.liŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trolling » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trolling is uncommon French at frequency #98,590 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔ.liŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Trollage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trolling in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is trolling, spelled T-R-O-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Trollage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trolling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis que le web s’est emparé du trolling, nombreux sont ceux qui se sont transformés en trolleurs en série.
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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