truque
\tʁyk\
The verdict
“truque” is uncommon French (frequency #98,592 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,592
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motte castrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-truque · truque · French
truque · rank #98,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,592
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tropic
Nearest frequency peer: tropic (-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 « truque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tripartites
tripartites
1,413 corpus weight
- trithérapie
trithérapie
1,412 corpus weight
- trolling
trolling
1,411 corpus weight
- tropic
tropic
1,410 corpus weight
- truque
truque
1,409 corpus weight
- tsk
tsk
1,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « truque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | truque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁyk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « truque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
truque is uncommon French at frequency #98,592 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁyk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Motte castrale.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for truque, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 truque, spelled T-R-U-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Motte castrale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how truque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La truque de Maurélis.
La truque de Bourdille.
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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