trotteur
\tʁɔ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“trotteur” is uncommon French (frequency #53,675 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,675
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie le lad qui entraîne le cheval au trot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trotteur · trotteur · French
trotteur · rank #53,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,675
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trotskiste
Nearest frequency peer: trotskiste (-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 « trotteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trompais
trompais
46,329 corpus weight
- tromperies
tromperies
46,328 corpus weight
- trotskiste
trotskiste
46,327 corpus weight
- trotteur
trotteur
46,326 corpus weight
- truquées
truquées
46,325 corpus weight
- tubercule
tubercule
46,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trotteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trotteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trotteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trotteur is uncommon French at frequency #53,675 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁɔ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for trotteur in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trotteur, spelled T-R-O-T-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qualifie le lad qui entraîne le cheval au trot.
- 2Qui trotte, notamment sur les trottoirs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trotteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon que vous avez demandé un petit ou un grand cheval, on choisit comme garçon trotteur un grand gaillard, ou un petit homme, […].
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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