trompette

/\tʁɔ̃.pɛt\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,257

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

trompette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument à vent, de la famille des cuivres, à son clair et éclatant. Pronounced \tʁɔ̃.pɛt\. Often confused with trompeuse and trompettes.

Key facts for trompette
PropertyValue
Headwordtrompette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɔ̃.pɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#16,257
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of trompette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for trompette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɔ̃.pɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,257 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for trompette, with forms such as "rtompette", "tormpette", and "trmopette". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "trompeuse", "trompettes", "trompée", 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 trompette, spelled T-R-O-M-P-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument à vent, de la famille des cuivres, à son clair et éclatant.
  2. 2
    Annonce d’une information publique officielle (dans l’expression « sans tambour ni trompette »), → voir claironner (le clairon étant en France un instrument d’ordonnance).
  3. 3
    Phénomène sonore de forte intensité, qui porte loin. Clameur publique, nouvelle qui se propage vite.
  4. 4
    Jeu d’orgue de la famille du jeu d’anche.
  5. 5
    Genre de mollusques à coquille univalve tournée en spirale, qu’on nomme autrement « buccin ».
  6. 6
    Trompette de la mort (champignon).
  7. 7
    Physionomie, trombine, binette.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtompette,tormpette,trmopette,tromeptte,trommpette,trompete,trompetet,tromppette,tromptete,tropmette,trrompette,ttrompette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for trompette

Misspelling Variants of "trompette"

rtompette9tormpette9trmopette9tromeptte9trommpette10trompete8trompetet9tromppette10
Misspelling Variants of "trompette"

Frequency rank: #16,257 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trompette"?
"trompette" is spelled T-R-O-M-P-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɔ̃.pɛt\.
What does "trompette" mean?
As a noun, "trompette" means: Instrument à vent, de la famille des cuivres, à son clair et éclatant.
What words are commonly confused with "trompette"?
"trompette" is commonly confused with "trompeuse", "trompettes", "trompée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trompette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trompette" is \tʁɔ̃.pɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trompette" come from?
"trompette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.