tronc

\tʁɔ̃\

/\tʁɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“tronc” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,316
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps d’un arbre, tige considérée sans les branches.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tronc · tronc · French

tronc · rank #11,316 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,316
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH trilogie

Nearest frequency peer: trilogie (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tronc »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tronc » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tronc vs trop
60% similar
tronc vs truc
60% similar
tronc vs trou
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tronc
PropertyValue
Headwordtronc
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɔ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,316
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tronc »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).troncse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « trilogie » (#11,315), « Tunisien » (#11,317), « utilisait » (#11,318). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tronc » est au #11,316. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around tronc (IPA \tʁɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,316 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tronc, with forms such as "rtonc", "tornc", and "trnoc". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trop", "truc", "trou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tronc, spelled T-R-O-N-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Corps d’un arbre, tige considérée sans les branches.
  2. 2
    Origine, partie principale d’un vaisseau, d’un nerf.
  3. 3
    Partie principale du corps d’un homme, d’un animal, sans la tête ni les membres.
  4. 4
    Partie comprise entre la base d’un cône, d’une pyramide, d’un prisme, et sa section par un plan.
  5. 5
    Fragment d’un fût de colonne.
  6. 6
    Ligne directe des ascendants et des descendants, d’où partent les branches ou lignes collatérales.
  7. 7
    Boîte, coffre de bois ou de métal posé ordinairement dans les églises et qui possède une fente pour recevoir l’argent des aumônes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tronc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À l’arrivée des gendarmes, le sanglier chargeait toujours le tronc d’arbre.
  2. On vient d’abattre à Lyon un platane géant. Cet arbre cubait près de 12 mètres et le tronc seul pesait 19540 kilogr.

Synonyms

tronc d’église

This word in other languages

trunk(English)tronco(Español)Stamm(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtonc
  • tornc
  • trnoc
  • trocn
  • troncc
  • tronnc
  • trronc
  • ttronc

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tronc - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

rtonc2tornc2trnoc2trocn2troncc1tronnc1trronc1ttronc1
Edit distance from "tronc"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tronc"?
"tronc" is spelled T-R-O-N-C. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɔ̃\.
What does "tronc" mean?
As a noun, "tronc" means: Corps d’un arbre, tige considérée sans les branches.
What words are commonly confused with "tronc"?
"tronc" is commonly confused with "trop", "truc", "trou". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tronc"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tronc" is \tʁɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tronc" come from?
"tronc" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tronc", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

seriez8 variantsAdidas8 variantsBoeing8 variantsbénin8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list