Trotski
\tʁɔt.ski\
The verdict
“Trotski” is uncommon French (frequency #61,199 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,199
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille russe, surtout connu pour Léon Trotski.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trotski · Trotski · French
Trotski · rank #61,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,199
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trépidante
Nearest frequency peer: trépidante (+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 « Trotski »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transverses
transverses
38,805 corpus weight
- tricote
tricote
38,804 corpus weight
- Trotski
Trotski
38,802 corpus weight
- trépidante
trépidante
38,801 corpus weight
- tueuses
tueuses
38,800 corpus weight
- tuons
tuons
38,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Trotski » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Trotski |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔt.ski\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Trotski » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Trotski is uncommon French at frequency #61,199 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tʁɔt.ski\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille russe, surtout connu pour Léon Trotski.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Trotski, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Trotski, spelled T-R-O-T-S-K-I.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille russe, surtout connu pour Léon Trotski.
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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