Words / T / General

traipse

verb/treɪps/

C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
InformalRegister

To walk or trudge about wearily or reluctantly, often aimlessly.

We traipsed halfway across the city only to find the museum closed.

Similar: trudge, trek, trail

Origin: 16th-c. English, of uncertain origin.

Topic: weary walking in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

Get words like traipse on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.

Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
QR code that opens Lexfall on the App Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.