thief
\ˈθif\
The verdict
“thief” is uncommon French (frequency #72,789 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,789
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thief · thief · French
thief · rank #72,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,789
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terrer
Nearest frequency peer: terrer (-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 « thief »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tchécoslova…
tchécoslovaques
27,215 corpus weight
- temer
temer
27,214 corpus weight
- terrer
terrer
27,213 corpus weight
- thief
thief
27,212 corpus weight
- threat
threat
27,211 corpus weight
- thymus
thymus
27,210 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thief » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thief |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈθif\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thief » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thief is uncommon French at frequency #72,789 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈθif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voleur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for thief in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is thief, spelled T-H-I-E-F.
Definition
- 1Voleur.
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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