trope
\tʁɔp\
The verdict
“trope” is uncommon French (frequency #83,454 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,454
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure de style, emploi d’une expression dans un sens figuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trope · trope · French
trope · rank #83,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,454
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trivia
Nearest frequency peer: trivia (-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 « trope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transpirait
transpirait
16,551 corpus weight
- trapézoïdale
trapézoïdale
16,550 corpus weight
- trivia
trivia
16,548 corpus weight
- trope
trope
16,547 corpus weight
- trunk
trunk
16,546 corpus weight
- Trépanier
Trépanier
16,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trope is uncommon French at frequency #83,454 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for trope in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trope, spelled T-R-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Figure de style, emploi d’une expression dans un sens figuré.
- 2Développement musical, ou littéraire, de la musique liturgique médiévale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La guerre était debout dans le lycée, le tambour étouffait à mes oreilles la voix des maîtres, et la voix mystérieuse des livres ne nous parlait qu’un langage froid et pédantesque. Les logarithmes et les tropes n’étaient à nos yeux que des degrés pour monter à l’étoile de la Légion d’honneur, la plus belle étoile des cieux pour des enfants.
Ce nom de « Sainte-Barbe » était ce que la rhétorique appelle « un trope ; » il signifiait que cette association, exposée au hasard et au danger, pouvait sauter d’un moment à l’autre, comme la soute aux poudres d’un navire de guerre.
This word in other languages
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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