trouvai
\tʁu.ve\
The verdict
“trouvai” is uncommon French (frequency #56,329 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,329
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouvai · trouvai · French
trouvai · rank #56,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,329
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trouduc
Nearest frequency peer: trouduc (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « trouvai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trimer
trimer
43,675 corpus weight
- trombes
trombes
43,674 corpus weight
- trouduc
trouduc
43,673 corpus weight
- trouvai
trouvai
43,672 corpus weight
- trusts
trusts
43,670 corpus weight
- tsunamis
tsunamis
43,669 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trouvai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trouvai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁu.ve\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trouvai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trouvai is uncommon French at frequency #56,329 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁu.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for trouvai, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trouvai, spelled T-R-O-U-V-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de trouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trouvai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On m’avait, de longue main, fait accepter une partie de gueule avec M. Grimod de la Reypière, ce que je n’avais pu refuser comme membre de son jury dégustateur ; arrivé chez ce roi des gourmands, à quatre heures sonnantes, conformément aux statuts, je le trouvai jouant la fureur d’avoir été forcé de contre-mander ses convives, et étonné de me voir arriver…
Mais une fois redescendu — dans un état d’énervement qui m’étonna moi-même —, je me trouvai incapable de ranimer le feu et d’y jeter une nouvelle brassée de livres.
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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