troyen
\tʁwa.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“troyen” is uncommon French (frequency #56,993 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,993
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Troie, la ville antique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-troyen · troyen · French
troyen · rank #56,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,993
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trêves
Nearest frequency peer: trêves (+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 « troyen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transportera
transportera
43,012 corpus weight
- trempette
trempette
43,011 corpus weight
- trempées
trempées
43,010 corpus weight
- troyen
troyen
43,008 corpus weight
- trêves
trêves
43,007 corpus weight
- turbulente
turbulente
43,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « troyen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troyen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁwa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « troyen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
troyen is uncommon French at frequency #56,993 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁwa.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for troyen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is troyen, spelled T-R-O-Y-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Troie, la ville antique.
- 2Relatif à Troye-d’Ariège, commune française située dans le département de l’Ariège.
- 3Relatif à Troyes, commune française située dans le département de l’Aube.
- 4Se dit d’un corps céleste (planète mineure, satellite) qui orbite en triangle équilatéral de deux corps majeurs, aux points dits de Lagrange 4 et 5 (L₄ et L₅).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how troyen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Moyen-Âge, en donnant le costume et les habitudes chevaleresques à des guerriers grecs ou troyens, les enlevait en quelque sorte à l’antiquité, et se les appropriait par son ignorance.
Il y a aussi deux groupes d’astéroïdes, appelés Troyens, qui partagent l’orbite de Jupiter, précédant et suivant la planète de 60 degrés.
This word in other languages
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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