troublait

\tʁu.blɛ\

/\tʁu.blɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“troublait” is uncommon French (frequency #91,251 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,251
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de troubler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-troublait · troublait · French

troublait · rank #91,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,251
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tromp

Nearest frequency peer: tromp (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « troublait »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « troublait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for troublait
PropertyValue
Headwordtroublait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tʁu.blɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#91,251
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « troublait » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).troublaittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tromp » (#91,250), « tuan » (#91,252), « trombinoscope » (#91,249). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « troublait » est au #91,251. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

troublait is uncommon French at frequency #91,251 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁu.blɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de troubler.".

No misspelling variants are generated for troublait in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is troublait, spelled T-R-O-U-B-L-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de troubler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how troublait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quant aux « désespoir du peintre », la finesse des petites taches rouges sur le blanc des pétales m’attirait sans que jamais j’aie pu savoir pourquoi leur irréalité me troublait autant.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "troublait"?
"troublait" is spelled T-R-O-U-B-L-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁu.blɛ\.
What does "troublait" mean?
As a verb, "troublait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de troubler.
How do you pronounce "troublait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "troublait" is \tʁu.blɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "troublait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list