Témiscouata
\te.mis.kwa.ta\
The verdict
“Témiscouata” is uncommon French (frequency #57,667 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,667
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative du Bas-Saint-Laurent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-temiscouata · Témiscouata · French
Témiscouata · rank #57,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,667
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tuèrent
Nearest frequency peer: tuèrent (-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 « Témiscouata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tueras
tueras
42,337 corpus weight
- tumultueuses
tumultueuses
42,336 corpus weight
- tuèrent
tuèrent
42,335 corpus weight
- Témiscouata
Témiscouata
42,334 corpus weight
- téter
téter
42,333 corpus weight
- têtard
têtard
42,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Témiscouata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Témiscouata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \te.mis.kwa.ta\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Témiscouata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Témiscouata is uncommon French at frequency #57,667 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \te.mis.kwa.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative du Bas-Saint-Laurent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Témiscouata in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Témiscouata, spelled T-É-M-I-S-C-O-U-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative du Bas-Saint-Laurent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Témiscouata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ça pourrait même dépasser les 30 centimètres de neige dans les secteurs de Kamouraska, du Témiscouata, de Rimouski et de la vallée de la Matapédia », a estimé M. Parent lors d’une entrevue avec La Presse canadienne.
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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