trouillard
\tʁu.jɑʁ\
The verdict
“trouillard” is uncommon French (frequency #79,821 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,821
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peureux, craintif, pétochard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouillard · trouillard · French
trouillard · rank #79,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,821
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH troglodyte
Nearest frequency peer: troglodyte (-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 « trouillard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tressées
tressées
20,183 corpus weight
- trin
trin
20,182 corpus weight
- troglodyte
troglodyte
20,181 corpus weight
- trouillard
trouillard
20,180 corpus weight
- TSH
TSH
20,179 corpus weight
- tuais
tuais
20,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trouillard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trouillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁu.jɑʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trouillard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trouillard is uncommon French at frequency #79,821 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁu.jɑʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peureux, craintif, pétochard.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trouillard in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trouillard, spelled T-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Peureux, craintif, pétochard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trouillard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu'est-ce qu'il est trouillard, je crois qu'il a été trop couvé par ses parents !
En réalité, si je fais tant le matamore dans les San-Antonio, c’est que je suis peureux de nature. Pas trouillard : peureux ! Nuance.
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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