Thermopyles
\tɛʁ.mɔ.pil\
The verdict
“Thermopyles” is uncommon French (frequency #64,825 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,825
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage célèbre par la mort héroïque de Léonidas et des trois cents Spartiates, situé en Grèce, près du golfe Maliaque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thermopyles · Thermopyles · French
Thermopyles · rank #64,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,825
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teva
Nearest frequency peer: teva (-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 « Thermopyles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- terminologi…
terminologique
35,179 corpus weight
- terrassemen…
terrassements
35,178 corpus weight
- teva
teva
35,177 corpus weight
- Thermopyles
Thermopyles
35,176 corpus weight
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théocratique
35,174 corpus weight
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Tiberi
35,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Thermopyles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thermopyles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.mɔ.pil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Thermopyles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Thermopyles is uncommon French at frequency #64,825 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɛʁ.mɔ.pil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passage célèbre par la mort héroïque de Léonidas et des trois cents Spartiates, situé en Grèce, près du golfe Maliaque.".
Thermopyles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Thermopyles, spelled T-H-E-R-M-O-P-Y-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Passage célèbre par la mort héroïque de Léonidas et des trois cents Spartiates, situé en Grèce, près du golfe Maliaque.
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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