thorax
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,607
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
thorax is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cage de la poitrine, où sont enfermés les poumons et le cœur. Pronounced \tɔ.ʁaks\. Often confused with Tora and Torah.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thorax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ʁaks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for thorax is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ.ʁaks\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,607 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for thorax, with forms such as "htorax", "thhorax", and "thoarx". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Tora", "Torah", "thorn", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is thorax, spelled T-H-O-R-A-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cage de la poitrine, où sont enfermés les poumons et le cœur.
- 2Un des trois grands segments de l'anatomie de l'insecte. Il porte les trois paires de pattes et les ailes éventuelles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: htorax,thhorax,thoarx,thoraxx,thorrax,thorxa,throax,tohrax,tthorax
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "thorax"
Frequency rank: #18,607 in French
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