thieves
\ˈθivz\
The verdict
“thieves” is uncommon French (frequency #98,561 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,561
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de thief.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thieves · thieves · French
thieves · rank #98,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,561
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thiriet
Nearest frequency peer: Thiriet (+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 « thieves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- terrorisant
terrorisant
1,443 corpus weight
- Tezuka
Tezuka
1,442 corpus weight
- thieves
thieves
1,440 corpus weight
- Thiriet
Thiriet
1,439 corpus weight
- Thivierge
Thivierge
1,438 corpus weight
- throat
throat
1,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thieves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thieves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈθivz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thieves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thieves is uncommon French at frequency #98,561 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈθivz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de thief.".
thieves has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is thieves, spelled T-H-I-E-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de thief.
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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