troupe

\tʁup\

/\tʁup\/ noun

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The verdict

“troupe” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,000
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réunion d’un certain nombre de personnes qui marchent ou agissent de concert.

Corpus desk

Index FR-troupe · troupe · French

troupe · rank #5,000 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,000
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tendre

Nearest frequency peer: tendre (-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 « troupe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « troupe » 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).

troupe vs true
67% similar
troupe vs trous
67% similar
troupe vs truie
67% similar

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

Key facts for troupe
PropertyValue
Headwordtroupe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁup\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,000
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « troupe »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.troupese 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 « tendre » (#4,999), « universelle » (#5,001), « tenait » (#4,998). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « troupe » est au #5,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around troupe (IPA \tʁup\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,000 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Réunion d’un certain nombre de personnes qui marchent ou agissent de concert.
  2. 2
    Troupe de comédiens, réunion d’acteurs associés ou réunis par un directeur, pour jouer la comédie en public.
  3. 3
    Corps de soldats.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des sous-officiers et soldats, par opposition aux officiers.
  5. 5
    Cigarette de tabac à fumer de qualité inférieure au tabac appelé caporal.
  6. 6
    Personnes qui agissent ensemble.
  7. 7
    Animaux groupés, en particulier des ânes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Lorsque la troupe des pastoureaux entra dans Orléans, le jour de saint Barnabas, l’évêque de cette ville interdit à tous ses clercs d’assister à ses prédications ; car, disait-il, ce sont les souricières du diable.
  2. Au cours du procès Zola, les antisémites recrutèrent des troupes de manifestants soldés, qui étaient chargés d’exprimer les indignations patriotiques ; le gouvernement de Méline protégeait ces manœuvres […].

This word in other languages

troop(English)ejército(Español)Truppe(Deutsch)

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.

rtoupe2torupe2tropue2trouep2trouppe1trroupe1truope2ttroupe1
Edit distance from "troupe"

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 "troupe"?
"troupe" is spelled T-R-O-U-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁup\.
What does "troupe" mean?
As a noun, "troupe" means: Réunion d’un certain nombre de personnes qui marchent ou agissent de concert.
What words are commonly confused with "troupe"?
"troupe" is commonly confused with "true", "trous", "truie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "troupe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "troupe" is \tʁup\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "troupe" come from?
"troupe" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tendre#4,999tenait#4,998assaut#5,008canton#5,013

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

étend8 variantsconnues8 variantsrendue8 variantsJohnny8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list