troupe

/\tʁup\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,000

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

troupe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réunion d’un certain nombre de personnes qui marchent ou agissent de concert. Pronounced \tʁup\. It ranks #5,000 in French word frequency. Often confused with true and trous.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of troupe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for troupe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for troupe, with forms such as "rtoupe", "torupe", and "tropue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is troupe, spelled T-R-O-U-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtoupe,torupe,tropue,trouep,trouppe,trroupe,truope,ttroupe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for troupe

Misspelling Variants of "troupe"

rtoupe6torupe6tropue6trouep6trouppe7trroupe7truope6ttroupe7
Misspelling Variants of "troupe"

Frequency rank: #5,000 in French

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 covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.