teuton
\tø.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“teuton” is uncommon French (frequency #84,369 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,369
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Teutons ou à la Germanie médiévale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teuton · teuton · French
teuton · rank #84,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,369
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tempest
Nearest frequency peer: tempest (-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 « teuton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tchadiennes
tchadiennes
15,635 corpus weight
- tempest
tempest
15,633 corpus weight
- teuton
teuton
15,632 corpus weight
- thalassothé…
thalassothérapie
15,631 corpus weight
- Thames
Thames
15,630 corpus weight
- thesis
thesis
15,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « teuton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teuton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tø.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « teuton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
teuton is uncommon French at frequency #84,369 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tø.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for teuton, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is teuton, spelled T-E-U-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Teutons ou à la Germanie médiévale.
- 2Relatif à l’Allemagne, aux Allemands et à leur culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teuton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heureux, Parapine riposta dans le moindre délai au nom de l’Institut national et surpassa d’emblée ce fanfaron teuton en cultivant lui, Parapine, le même germe à l’état pur et dans le sperme d’un invalide de soixante et douze ans.
La Libération. — […]. A Grandchamp, les Allemands ont fusillé deux habitants, MM. Canaux et Destremont. Nous saluons ces malheureuses victimes des criminels teutons.
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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