troupe
\tʁup\
The verdict
“troupe” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,000 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,000
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Réunion d’un certain nombre de personnes qui marchent ou agissent de concert.
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 | troupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁup\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “troupe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for troupe is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁup\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,000 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for troupe, with forms such as "rtoupe", "torupe", and "tropue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "true", "trous", "truie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is troupe, spelled T-R-O-U-P-E.
Definition
- 1Réunion d’un certain nombre de personnes qui marchent ou agissent de concert.
- 2Troupe de comédiens, réunion d’acteurs associés ou réunis par un directeur, pour jouer la comédie en public.
- 3Corps de soldats.
- 4Ensemble des sous-officiers et soldats, par opposition aux officiers.
- 5Cigarette de tabac à fumer de qualité inférieure au tabac appelé caporal.
- 6Personnes qui agissent ensemble.
- 7Animaux groupés, en particulier des ânes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtoupe,torupe,tropue,trouep,trouppe,trroupe,truope,ttroupe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of troupe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “troupe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-O-U-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁup\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “true” - see the side-by-side comparison. troupe vs true
- 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.