trouin
\ˈtruː.ĩn\
The verdict
“trouin” is uncommon French (frequency #93,341 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,341
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de drouin par durcissement (d → t).
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouin · trouin · French
trouin · rank #93,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,341
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trilatérale
Nearest frequency peer: trilatérale (-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 « trouin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transfèreme…
transfèrement
6,664 corpus weight
- trigo
trigo
6,662 corpus weight
- trilatérale
trilatérale
6,661 corpus weight
- trouin
trouin
6,660 corpus weight
- tumuli
tumuli
6,658 corpus weight
- téléguidés
téléguidés
6,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trouin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trouin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtruː.ĩn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trouin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trouin is uncommon French at frequency #93,341 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtruː.ĩn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de drouin par durcissement (d → t).".
Zero misspellings are on record for trouin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trouin, spelled T-R-O-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de drouin par durcissement (d → t).
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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