trouva
\tʁu.va\
The verdict
“trouva” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,082
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouva · trouva · French
trouva · rank #13,082 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,082
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transporteur
Nearest frequency peer: transporteur (-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 « trouva »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- take
take
86,922 corpus weight
- touch
touch
86,921 corpus weight
- transporteur
transporteur
86,920 corpus weight
- trouva
trouva
86,919 corpus weight
- two
two
86,918 corpus weight
- urnes
urnes
86,917 corpus weight
What this shows « trouva » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trouva |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁu.va\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trouva »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around trouva (IPA \tʁu.va\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,082 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trouva, with forms such as "rtouva", "toruva", and "trouav". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "trouvé", "trouver", "trouvez", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is trouva, spelled T-R-O-U-V-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trouva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ligny connut des sièges, toutes les famines et les pestes. Celle de la guerre de 30 ans nous a révélé son horreur : vers 1920, on creusa au nord de la ville et l’on trouva des crânes l’un à côté de l’autre, à 70 cm sous la terre ; ils correspondaient à des squelettes qu’on avait « gerbés » droits comme des fagots, dans des tranchées, tant les morts étaien…
Malgré les précautions prises par le notaire, qui vint au-devant de la carriole, il se trouva des témoins, et l’on vit descendre les porte-manteaux et les sacoches qui contenaient l’argent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtouva
- toruva
- trouav
- trouvva
- trovua
- trrouva
- truova
- ttrouva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trouva - 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.
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.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).