trou blanc

/\tʁu blɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

trou blanc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet hypothétique inverse du trou noir, dont la matière se dégage. Pronounced \tʁu blɑ̃\.

Key facts for trou blanc
PropertyValue
Headwordtrou blanc
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁu blɑ̃\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

trou blanc is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for trou blanc is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁu blɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Objet hypothétique inverse du trou noir, dont la matière se dégage.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for trou blanc in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is trou blanc, spelled T-R-O-U- -B-L-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objet hypothétique inverse du trou noir, dont la matière se dégage.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trou blanc"?
"trou blanc" is spelled T-R-O-U- -B-L-A-N-C. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁu blɑ̃\.
What does "trou blanc" mean?
As a noun, "trou blanc" means: Objet hypothétique inverse du trou noir, dont la matière se dégage.
How do you pronounce "trou blanc"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trou blanc" is \tʁu blɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trou blanc" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.