thong
\ˈθɒŋ\
The verdict
“thong” is uncommon French (frequency #88,158 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,158
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lanière de cuir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thong · thong · French
thong · rank #88,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,158
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thang
Nearest frequency peer: thang (-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 « thong »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Technik
Technik
11,846 corpus weight
- temporisati…
temporisation
11,845 corpus weight
- thang
thang
11,844 corpus weight
- thong
thong
11,843 corpus weight
- Thoune
Thoune
11,842 corpus weight
- Thule
Thule
11,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thong » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thong |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈθɒŋ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thong » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thong is uncommon French at frequency #88,158 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈθɒŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for thong in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is thong, spelled T-H-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Lanière de cuir.
- 2Fouet fait de lanières de cuir.
- 3Tong, sandale.
- 4String (sous-vêtement).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The girls were wearing nothing but their thongs.
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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