thalasso
\ta.la.so\
The verdict
“thalasso” is uncommon French (frequency #68,697 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,697
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cure de thalassothérapie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thalasso · thalasso · French
thalasso · rank #68,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,697
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terriennes
Nearest frequency peer: terriennes (-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 « thalasso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teigneux
teigneux
31,307 corpus weight
- telluriques
telluriques
31,306 corpus weight
- terriennes
terriennes
31,305 corpus weight
- thalasso
thalasso
31,304 corpus weight
- Thiry
Thiry
31,303 corpus weight
- tomberaient
tomberaient
31,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thalasso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thalasso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.la.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thalasso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thalasso is uncommon French at frequency #68,697 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.la.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cure de thalassothérapie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for thalasso, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 thalasso, spelled T-H-A-L-A-S-S-O.
Definition
- 1Cure de thalassothérapie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thalasso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet été je vais en thalasso à Deauville.
Thibault Tricole sortait de quelques jours de thalasso lorsqu’il a accepté de répondre à nos questions.
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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