trouva

\tʁu.va\

/\tʁu.va\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « trouva » 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).

trouva vs trouvé
83% similar
trouva vs trouver
71% similar
trouva vs trouvez
71% similar

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

Key facts for trouva
PropertyValue
Headwordtrouva
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tʁu.va\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,082
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trouva »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.trouvase 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 « transporteur » (#13,081), « two » (#13,083), « touch » (#13,080). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trouva » est au #13,082. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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…
  2. 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.

rtouva2toruva2trouav2trouvva1trovua2trrouva1truova2ttrouva1
Edit distance from "trouva"

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 "trouva"?
"trouva" is spelled T-R-O-U-V-A. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁu.va\.
What does "trouva" mean?
As a verb, "trouva" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.
What words are commonly confused with "trouva"?
"trouva" is commonly confused with "trouvé", "trouver", "trouvez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trouva"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trouva" is \tʁu.va\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trouva" come from?
"trouva" 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 "trouva", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list