Thuin
\tɥɛ̃\
The verdict
“Thuin” is uncommon French (frequency #66,381 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,381
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province de Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thuin · Thuin · French
Thuin · rank #66,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,381
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timbale
Nearest frequency peer: timbale (+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 « Thuin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tenterais
tenterais
33,624 corpus weight
- TFT
TFT
33,623 corpus weight
- Thuin
Thuin
33,620 corpus weight
- timbale
timbale
33,619 corpus weight
- tirets
tirets
33,618 corpus weight
- titrait
titrait
33,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Thuin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thuin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɥɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Thuin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Thuin is uncommon French at frequency #66,381 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɥɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune de la province de Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
Thuin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Thuin, spelled T-H-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province de Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thuin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l'exception des chemins qui longent la Sambre, toutes les rues de Thuin sont escarpées.
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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