trousse

/\tʁus\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,032

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

trousse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faisceau de choses liées ensemble. Pronounced \tʁus\. Often confused with trouvé and trouvée.

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

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for trousse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁus\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,032 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 trousse, with forms such as "rtousse", "torusse", and "trosuse". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "trouvé", "trouvée", "trousses", 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 trousse, spelled T-R-O-U-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtousse,torusse,trosuse,trouse,trouses,trrousse,truosse,ttrousse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for trousse

Misspelling Variants of "trousse"

rtousse7torusse7trosuse7trouse6trouses7trrousse8truosse7ttrousse8
Misspelling Variants of "trousse"

Frequency rank: #16,032 in French

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?
"trousse" 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.