trompa
\tʁɔ̃.pa\
The verdict
“trompa” is uncommon French (frequency #95,423 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,423
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tromper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trompa · trompa · French
trompa · rank #95,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,423
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH turcophones
Nearest frequency peer: turcophones (+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 « trompa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trask
trask
4,582 corpus weight
- traçable
traçable
4,581 corpus weight
- trompa
trompa
4,578 corpus weight
- turcophones
turcophones
4,577 corpus weight
- Turku
Turku
4,576 corpus weight
- télécommand…
télécommandée
4,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trompa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trompa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɔ̃.pa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trompa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trompa is uncommon French at frequency #95,423 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɔ̃.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tromper.".
trompa has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trompa, spelled T-R-O-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tromper.
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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