troubler
\tʁu.ble\
The verdict
“troubler” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #23,055 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #23,055
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rendre trouble.
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 | troubler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁu.ble\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “troubler” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for troubler is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁu.ble\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,055 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for troubler, with forms such as "rtoubler", "torubler", and "trobuler". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "trouer", "trouver", "troubles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 troubler, spelled T-R-O-U-B-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre trouble.
- 2Perdre de sa netteté, de sa clarté.
- 3Causer une agitation désordonnée.
- 4Perturber une fonction physiologique.
- 5Perturber les sens, la raison et les facultés de l’âme.
- 6Émouvoir.
- 7S’égarer, en parlant de l'esprit.
- 8Ôter sa présence d’esprit à quelqu’un.
- 9Inquiéter une personne dans la possession, dans la jouissance de quelque bien.
- 10Interrompre d’une manière désagréable.
- 11Apporter du trouble, du désordre ; causer de la mésintelligence ; perturber.
- 12Éprouver une émotion, un trouble qui fait qu’on s’embarrasse, qu’on ne sait plus que dire, que faire.
- 13Perdre de sa netteté, de sa précision, en parlant d'un sens ou de la mémoire
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtoubler,torubler,trobuler,troubbler,troubelr,troublerr,troubller,troublre,troulber,trroubler,truobler,ttroubler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of troubler - 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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Using “troubler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-O-U-B-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁu.ble\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “trouer” - see the side-by-side comparison. troubler vs trouer
- 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.