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trop

French, adverb/tʁo/

trop is spelled T-R-O-P (4 letters) and appears 676 times per million words in written French, the 127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trop is a French adverb meaning “too; too much” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plus qu’il ne faut ; avec excès”.

What does trop mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    too; too much

    La soupe est trop chaude.

  2. 2

    colloquialvery, really, so

    Elle est trop belle !

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. Plus qu’il ne faut ; avec excès. 2. Un nombre ou une quantité avec excès. 3. Très, extrêmement. 4. Très, extrêmement.

noun: 1. Excès.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce trop?

  • /tʁo/
  • /tʁɔ.p‿/
  • /tʁo.p‿/

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to trop

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is trop in French?

trop appears 676 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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