Thoune
The verdict
“Thoune” is uncommon French (frequency #88,159 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,159
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - District du canton de Berne en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thoune · Thoune · French
Thoune · rank #88,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,159
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thong
Nearest frequency peer: thong (-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 « Thoune »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Thècle
Thècle
11,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Thoune » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thoune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Thoune » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Thoune is uncommon French at frequency #88,159 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Thoune doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Thoune, spelled T-H-O-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1District du canton de Berne en Suisse.
- 2Ville et commune du canton de Berne en Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thoune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le châssis était importé de Suède alors que la tourelle était fabriquée à Thoune par RUAG, également chargé de l'intégration sur le châssis.
Synonyms
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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