tromper
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,295
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tromper is aFrenchverb. It means: Induire en erreur, par artifice. Pronounced \tʁɔ̃.pe\. It ranks #4,295 in French word frequency. Often confused with troupe and trouer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tromper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɔ̃.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tromper is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɔ̃.pe\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,295 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for tromper, with forms such as "rtomper", "tormper", and "trmoper". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "troupe", "trouer", "trouver", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tromper, spelled T-R-O-M-P-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Induire en erreur, par artifice.
- 2(forme qqn trompe qqn). Abuser de la confiance de quelqu’un.
- 3(forme qqn trompe qqn). Abuser de la confiance de quelqu’un.
- 4Faire fuir (une émotion, un état) par diversion. → voir tromper sa faim, tromper l’ennui et tromper le temps
- 5Faire fuir (une émotion, un état) par diversion. → voir tromper sa faim, tromper l’ennui et tromper le temps
- 6(forme qqc trompe qqn) abuser, provoquer une erreur de jugement, d'appréciation.
- 7(forme qqc trompe qqc) Déjouer une situation par un artifice, un événement, une action.
- 8(forme qqc trompe qqc) Déjouer une situation par un artifice, un événement, une action.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtomper,tormper,trmoper,tromepr,trommper,tromperr,trompper,trompre,tropmer,trromper,ttromper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tromper
Misspelling Variants of "tromper"
Frequency rank: #4,295 in French
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