troublant
\tʁu.blɑ̃\
The verdict
“troublant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,841. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,841
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cause un trouble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-troublant · troublant · French
troublant · rank #17,841 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,841
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tricher
Nearest frequency peer: tricher (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « troublant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- touchait
touchait
82,162 corpus weight
- tricher
tricher
82,161 corpus weight
- troublant
troublant
82,160 corpus weight
- trust
trust
82,159 corpus weight
- tsar
tsar
82,158 corpus weight
- versets
versets
82,157 corpus weight
What this shows « troublant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troublant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁu.blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « troublant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around troublant (IPA \tʁu.blɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,841 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui cause un trouble.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for troublant, with forms such as "rtoublant", "torublant", and "trobulant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "trouvant", "troublante", "troublantes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is troublant, spelled T-R-O-U-B-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui cause un trouble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how troublant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une atmosphère pesante et troublante régnait encore entre les murs aux boiseries sévères, sous le plafond à écussons […].
— Je le sentais inquiet, troublé. Donzac dit que je suis troublant au sens absolu. Pas toujours. Mais je l’étais ce jour-là.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtoublant
- torublant
- trobulant
- troubalnt
- troubblant
- troublannt
- troublantt
- troublatn
- troubllant
- troublnat
- troulbant
- trroublant
- truoblant
- ttroublant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of troublant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).