trousse

\tʁus\

/\tʁus\/ noun

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The verdict

“trousse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,032
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faisceau de choses liées ensemble.

Corpus desk

Index FR-trousse · trousse · French

trousse · rank #16,032 · 8 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,032
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tronçon

Nearest frequency peer: tronçon (-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 « trousse »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « trousse » 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).

trousse vs trouvé
57% similar
trousse vs trouvée
71% similar
trousse vs trousses
88% similar

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

Key facts for trousse
PropertyValue
Headwordtrousse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁus\
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,032
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trousse »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).troussese 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 « tronçon » (#16,031), « vedettes » (#16,033), « tranchant » (#16,030). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trousse » est au #16,032. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around trousse (IPA \tʁus\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,032 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 trousse, with forms such as "rtousse", "torusse", and "trosuse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "trouvé", "trouvée", "trousses", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trousse, spelled T-R-O-U-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faisceau de choses liées ensemble.
  2. 2
    Étui où l’on enferme les instruments de première nécessité employés dans diverses professions ou spéciaux à divers usages.
  3. 3
    Étui d’écolier, pouvant contenir crayons, gomme, taille-crayon, etc.
  4. 4
    Étui dans lequel les chirurgiens renferment les instruments nécessaires aux opérations urgentes.
  5. 5
    Chausses que portaient autrefois les pages, et que portaient aussi les chevaliers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit quand ils avaient leurs habits de novices.
  6. 6
    Cordage de moyenne grosseur dont on se sert pour élever de médiocres fardeaux
  7. 7
    Pénis.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Trousse de linge mouillé.
  2. Trousse de fourrage vert.

This word in other languages

kit(English)estuche(Español)Bündel(Deutsch)feixe(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtousse
  • torusse
  • trosuse
  • trouse
  • trouses
  • trrousse
  • truosse
  • ttrousse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trousse - 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.

rtousse2torusse2trosuse2trouse1trouses2trrousse1truosse2ttrousse1
Edit distance from "trousse"

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 "trousse"?
"trousse" is spelled T-R-O-U-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁus\.
What does "trousse" mean?
As a noun, "trousse" means: Faisceau de choses liées ensemble.
What words are commonly confused with "trousse"?
"trousse" is commonly confused with "trouvé", "trouvée", "trousses". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trousse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trousse" is \tʁus\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trousse" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

tronçon#16,031vertige#16,034trainer#16,029toscane#16,027

Similar misspelling depth

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

yacht8 variantsétouffe8 variantsadmise8 variantsApollon8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list