truc
\tʁyk\
The verdict
“truc” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #431. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #431
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Astuce, tour de main, procédé ingénieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-truc · truc · French
truc · rank #431 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #431
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sujet
Nearest frequency peer: sujet (-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 « truc »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Québec
Québec
99,573 corpus weight
- semble
semble
99,572 corpus weight
- sujet
sujet
99,571 corpus weight
- truc
truc
99,570 corpus weight
- agit
agit
99,569 corpus weight
- enfant
enfant
99,568 corpus weight
What this shows « truc » 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 | truc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁyk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « truc »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around truc (IPA \tʁyk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #431 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for truc, with forms such as "rtuc", "trcu", and "trruc". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "tué", "tua", 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. The correct French form is truc, spelled T-R-U-C.
Definition
- 1Astuce, tour de main, procédé ingénieux.
- 2Quelque chose dont on ne connait pas le nom, ou dont on se méfie.
- 3Montagne arrondie.
- 4Performance très bonne et inattendue d'un cheval dans une course.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how truc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un de leurs trucs, un cuisinier (espion) d’un nouveau genre, répondit Fil-de-Soie.
On vient d’arrêter et d’envoyer au Dépôt un charbonnier, le nommé Gandillot, qui avait trouvé un excellent truc pour faire fortune aux dépens de la bourse et de la santé de ses clients. Cet honnête industriel livrait à ses pratiques, au lieu de l’eau qu’on lui demandait, un petit vin blanc de son pays qu’il achetait à vil prix.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtuc
- trcu
- trruc
- trucc
- ttruc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of truc - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).