tronquette
\tʁɔ̃.kɛt\
The verdict
“tronquette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite fille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tronquette · tronquette · French
tronquette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tronquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ̃.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tronquette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tronquette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔ̃.kɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite fille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tronquette in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tronquette, spelled T-R-O-N-Q-U-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite fille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tronquette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se nourrit de pain et d’eau que lui apporte tous les matins la fille de son frère, une petite tronquette de douze ans à laquelle il a laissé ses biens, et qu’est une jolie créature, douce comme un agneau, une bien mignonne fille, bien plaisante.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.