trou noir
\tʁu nwaʁ\
The verdict
“trou noir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Objet astronomique, et sa périphérie, où la gravitation est tellement intense que rien ne peut s’en échapper, même pas la lumière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trou noir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁu nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trou noir” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
trou noir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁu nwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for trou noir in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 noir, spelled T-R-O-U- -N-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Objet astronomique, et sa périphérie, où la gravitation est tellement intense que rien ne peut s’en échapper, même pas la lumière.
- 2Cocktail composé de 3/5 de vodka glacée, 2/5 de jus de pomme et un nappage de caramel tiède.
- 3Routeur qui ne transmet aucun datagramme même s'il en reçoit.
- 4Un simple orifice tout noir à l’intérieur.
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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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Using “trou noir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-O-U- -N-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁu nwaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.