Thames
\tɛmz\
The verdict
“Thames” is uncommon French (frequency #84,371 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,371
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tamise (fleuve anglais).
Corpus desk
Index FR-thames · Thames · French
Thames · rank #84,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thalassothéra…
Nearest frequency peer: thalassothérapie (-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 « Thames »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Thévenin
Thévenin
15,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Thames » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thames |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛmz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Thames » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Thames is uncommon French at frequency #84,371 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɛmz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tamise (fleuve anglais).".
Thames has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Thames, spelled T-H-A-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Tamise (fleuve anglais).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thames appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Thames is the largest river in England.
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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