trou d’homme
\tʁu d‿ɔm\
The verdict
“trou d’homme” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Trou permettant le passage d’un homme pour l’inspection et la maintenance d’ouvrage de travaux publics (pont, égouts…) ou d’appareils industriels (cuve, réservoir, chaudière…).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trou d’homme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁu d‿ɔm\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trou d’homme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trou d’homme is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁu d‿ɔm\. 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: "Trou permettant le passage d’un homme pour l’inspection et la maintenance d’ouvrage de travaux publics (pont, égouts…) ou d’appareils industriels (cuve, réservoir, chaudière…).".
trou d’homme has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 trou d’homme, spelled T-R-O-U- -D-’-H-O-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Trou permettant le passage d’un homme pour l’inspection et la maintenance d’ouvrage de travaux publics (pont, égouts…) ou d’appareils industriels (cuve, réservoir, chaudière…).
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Using “trou d’homme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-O-U- -D-’-H-O-M-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.