troupes

\tʁup\

/\tʁup\/ noun

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The verdict

“troupes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,840
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de troupe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-troupes · troupes · French

troupes · rank #1,840 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,840
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH totale

Nearest frequency peer: totale (-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 « troupes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « troupes » 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).

troupes vs trous
71% similar
troupes vs trouvé
57% similar
troupes vs Troyes
57% similar

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

Key facts for troupes
PropertyValue
Headwordtroupes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁup\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,840
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « troupes »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).troupesse 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 « totale » (#1,839), « trouvent » (#1,841), « télévision » (#1,842). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « troupes » est au #1,840. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around troupes (IPA \tʁup\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,840 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de troupe.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for troupes, with forms such as "rtoupes", "torupes", and "tropues". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trous", "trouvé", "Troyes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is troupes, spelled T-R-O-U-P-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de troupe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Si bien que, au fur et à mesure que les Allemands évacuaient les pays occupés, les bolchevistes russes les occupaient avec leurs troupes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtoupes
  • torupes
  • tropues
  • troueps
  • troupess
  • trouppes
  • troupse
  • trroupes
  • truopes
  • ttroupes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of troupes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rtoupes2torupes2tropues2troueps2troupess1trouppes1troupse2trroupes1
Edit distance from "troupes"

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 "troupes"?
"troupes" is spelled T-R-O-U-P-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁup\.
What does "troupes" mean?
As a noun, "troupes" means: Pluriel de troupe.
What words are commonly confused with "troupes"?
"troupes" is commonly confused with "trous", "trouvé", "Troyes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "troupes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "troupes" is \tʁup\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "troupes" come from?
"troupes" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vieille#1,843accueil#1,845Bernard#1,850Laurent#1,822

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

conduit10 variantsconcert10 variantsminimum10 variantsaccepter10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list