troop
\tɹuːp\
The verdict
“troop” is uncommon French (frequency #71,149 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,149
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troupe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-troop · troop · French
troop · rank #71,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,149
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triglycérides
Nearest frequency peer: triglycérides (-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 « troop »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transphobes
transphobes
28,856 corpus weight
- trapani
trapani
28,855 corpus weight
- tridimensio…
tridimensionnel
28,854 corpus weight
- triglycérid…
triglycérides
28,853 corpus weight
- troop
troop
28,852 corpus weight
- troublées
troublées
28,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « troop » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɹuːp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « troop » en français
Rare enough to double-check
troop is uncommon French at frequency #71,149 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɹuːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troupe.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for troop in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is troop, spelled T-R-O-O-P.
Definition
- 1Troupe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how troop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Troops along the southern border were obstructed at Al-Tanf, a crucial crossing into Iraq.
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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