troubler

\tʁu.ble\

/\tʁu.ble\/ verb

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The verdict

“troubler” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,055
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre trouble.

Corpus desk

Index FR-troubler · troubler · French

troubler · rank #23,055 · 12 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,055
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH triangles

Nearest frequency peer: triangles (-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 « troubler »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « troubler » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

troubler vs trouer
75% similar
troubler vs trouver
75% similar
troubler vs troubles
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for troubler
PropertyValue
Headwordtroubler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tʁu.ble\
Letters8
Frequency rank#23,055
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « troubler »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.troublerse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « triangles » (#23,054), « troublée » (#23,056), « transposition » (#23,053). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « troubler » est au #23,055. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around troubler (IPA \tʁu.ble\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,055 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 13 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Rendre trouble.
  2. 2
    Perdre de sa netteté, de sa clarté.
  3. 3
    Causer une agitation désordonnée.
  4. 4
    Perturber une fonction physiologique.
  5. 5
    Perturber les sens, la raison et les facultés de l’âme.
  6. 6
    Émouvoir.
  7. 7
    S’égarer, en parlant de l'esprit.
  8. 8
    Ôter sa présence d’esprit à quelqu’un.
  9. 9
    Inquiéter une personne dans la possession, dans la jouissance de quelque bien.
  10. 10
    Interrompre d’une manière désagréable.
  11. 11
    Apporter du trouble, du désordre ; causer de la mésintelligence ; perturber.
  12. 12
    Éprouver une émotion, un trouble qui fait qu’on s’embarrasse, qu’on ne sait plus que dire, que faire.
  13. 13
    Perdre de sa netteté, de sa précision, en parlant d'un sens ou de la mémoire

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les pluies ont troublé la rivière.
  2. Si vous remuez ce vin, vous le troublerez.

This word in other languages

trouble(English)agitar(Español)trüben(Deutsch)atrapalhar(Português)

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.

rtoubler2torubler2trobuler2troubbler1troubelr2troublerr1troubller1troublre2
Edit distance from "troubler"

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 "troubler"?
"troubler" is spelled T-R-O-U-B-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁu.ble\.
What does "troubler" mean?
As a verb, "troubler" means: Rendre trouble.
What words are commonly confused with "troubler"?
"troubler" is commonly confused with "trouer", "trouver", "troubles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "troubler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "troubler" is \tʁu.ble\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "troubler" come from?
"troubler" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

troublée#23,056torrents#23,052visitent#23,064tabouret#23,044

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

vigoureux12 variantssupposées12 variantsécrivais12 variantsécrouler12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list