trouduc
\tʁu.dyk\
The verdict
“trouduc” is uncommon French (frequency #56,328 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,328
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne peu recommandable et que l’on déteste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouduc · trouduc · French
trouduc · rank #56,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,328
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trombes
Nearest frequency peer: trombes (-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 « trouduc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tribeca
Tribeca
43,676 corpus weight
- trimer
trimer
43,675 corpus weight
- trombes
trombes
43,674 corpus weight
- trouduc
trouduc
43,673 corpus weight
- trouvai
trouvai
43,672 corpus weight
- trusts
trusts
43,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trouduc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trouduc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁu.dyk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trouduc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trouduc is uncommon French at frequency #56,328 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁu.dyk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne peu recommandable et que l’on déteste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for trouduc, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is trouduc, spelled T-R-O-U-D-U-C.
Definition
- 1Personne peu recommandable et que l’on déteste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trouduc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Norm est un trouduc. Norm est une fiotte. Il s'arrêta, se demandant quelle était la différence. Eh bien, un trouduc était un connard vraiment imbitable, et une fiotte un taré qui avait la trouille de son ombre, et tellement peur de faire quoi que ce soit qu'il était toujours à casser la baraque à tout le monde.
– Dis-moi, trouduc, t’arrives à respirer par le nez, non ? Alors ferme ta gueule, s’il te plaît.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).