trou
French, noun/tʁu/
trou is spelled T-R-O-U (4 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written French, the 2,363rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trou is a French masculine noun meaning “hole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouverture au travers d’un corps ou qui y pénètre à une certaine profondeur”.
What does trou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehole
- 2
masculineblank (memory)
- 3
masculinepause in conversation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ouverture au travers d’un corps ou qui y pénètre à une certaine profondeur. 2. Avantage de douze points, que celui qui les gagne marque par un fichet qu’il met dans un trou. 3. Cavité où il faut introduire la balle. 4. Parcours pour atteindre un trou.
noun: 1. Régionalisme pour trognon.
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.
Forms of trou
- trous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trou?
- /tʁu/
- \tʁu\
- [t̪χu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trou in French?
trou appears 35 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).