trou de la serrure
\tʁu də la se.ʁyʁ\
The verdict
“trou de la serrure” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Passage, dans les serrures anciennes, de la clef, qui pouvait permettre de voir ce qui se passait de l'autre côté de la porte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trou de la serrure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁu də la se.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trou de la serrure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trou de la serrure is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁu də la se.ʁyʁ\. 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: "Passage, dans les serrures anciennes, de la clef, qui pouvait permettre de voir ce qui se passait de l'autre côté de la porte.".
Zero misspellings are on record for trou de la serrure in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 trou de la serrure, spelled T-R-O-U- -D-E- -L-A- -S-E-R-R-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Passage, dans les serrures anciennes, de la clef, qui pouvait permettre de voir ce qui se passait de l'autre côté de la porte.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-O-U- -D-E- -L-A- -S-E-R-R-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.