thick
\θɪk\
The verdict
“thick” is uncommon French (frequency #95,398 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,398
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épais, gros.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thick · thick · French
thick · rank #95,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,398
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thessalonicie…
Nearest frequency peer: Thessaloniciens (-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 « thick »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tez
tez
4,607 corpus weight
- thaler
thaler
4,606 corpus weight
- thao
thao
4,605 corpus weight
- Thessalonic…
Thessaloniciens
4,604 corpus weight
- thick
thick
4,603 corpus weight
- théologique…
théologiquement
4,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thick » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \θɪk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thick » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thick is uncommon French at frequency #95,398 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \θɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thick, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 thick, spelled T-H-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Épais, gros.
- 2Stupide, bête.
- 3Lié, proche.
- 4Déraisonnable, osé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thick as thieves.
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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