thousands
\ˈθaʊ̯.zn̩dz\
The verdict
“thousands” is uncommon French (frequency #92,262 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,262
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de thousand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thousands · thousands · French
thousands · rank #92,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,262
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thibeault
Nearest frequency peer: Thibeault (-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 « thousands »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teubés
teubés
7,742 corpus weight
- Theis
Theis
7,741 corpus weight
- Thibeault
Thibeault
7,740 corpus weight
- thousands
thousands
7,739 corpus weight
- thumb
thumb
7,738 corpus weight
- thébaïde
thébaïde
7,737 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thousands » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thousands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈθaʊ̯.zn̩dz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thousands » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thousands is uncommon French at frequency #92,262 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈθaʊ̯.zn̩dz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de thousand.".
No misspelling variants are generated for thousands in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is thousands, spelled T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de thousand.
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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