territory
The verdict
“territory” is uncommon French (frequency #74,422 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,422
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Territoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-territory · territory · French
territory · rank #74,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,422
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH testerai
Nearest frequency peer: testerai (+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 « territory »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tartelette
tartelette
25,582 corpus weight
- tempi
tempi
25,581 corpus weight
- territory
territory
25,579 corpus weight
- testerai
testerai
25,578 corpus weight
- testiculaire
testiculaire
25,577 corpus weight
- Thaddeus
Thaddeus
25,576 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « territory » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | territory |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « territory » en français
Rare enough to double-check
territory is uncommon French at frequency #74,422 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Territoire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for territory in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is territory, spelled T-E-R-R-I-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Territoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how territory appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Create a program that reads a postal code from the user and displays the province or territory associated with it, along with whether the address is urban or rural.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).