truculent
\tʁy.ky.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“truculent” is uncommon French (frequency #77,105 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,105
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est violent ou excessif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-truculent · truculent · French
truculent · rank #77,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,105
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trina
Nearest frequency peer: trina (-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 « truculent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- treasury
treasury
22,899 corpus weight
- treuils
treuils
22,898 corpus weight
- trina
trina
22,897 corpus weight
- truculent
truculent
22,896 corpus weight
- trébuchant
trébuchant
22,895 corpus weight
- turbot
turbot
22,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « truculent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | truculent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁy.ky.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « truculent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
truculent is uncommon French at frequency #77,105 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁy.ky.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for truculent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 truculent, spelled T-R-U-C-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est violent ou excessif.
- 2Qui est pittoresque ou haut en couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how truculent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hélas ! je n’osais m’en plaindre, puisque ma fonction lamentable est d’être toujours truculent et de ne jamais rater mon diogénique personnage.
Je me souviens qu’elle me présenta une fois à un apoplectique et truculent gentleman, couvert d’ordres et de rubans, et sur lui me souffla à l’oreille, sur un mode tragique, les plus abasourdissants détails, qui durent être perçus de chaque personne alors dans le salon.
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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