trottait
\tʁɔ.tɛ\
The verdict
“trottait” is uncommon French (frequency #80,736 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,736
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trotter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trottait · trottait · French
trottait · rank #80,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,736
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trophiques
Nearest frequency peer: trophiques (-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 « trottait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- triplettes
triplettes
19,268 corpus weight
- trompaient
trompaient
19,267 corpus weight
- trophiques
trophiques
19,266 corpus weight
- trottait
trottait
19,265 corpus weight
- trônent
trônent
19,263 corpus weight
- turkmènes
turkmènes
19,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trottait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trottait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trottait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trottait is uncommon French at frequency #80,736 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɔ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trotter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for trottait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is trottait, spelled T-R-O-T-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trotter.
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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