Thule
\ˈtʰuː.leː\
The verdict
“Thule” is uncommon French (frequency #88,160 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,160
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Thulé, ile formant la limite septentrionale du monde connu chez les Anciens, peut-être les îles Féroé, le Groenland ou l’Islande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thule · Thule · French
Thule · rank #88,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,160
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thoune
Nearest frequency peer: Thoune (-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 « Thule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- théisme
théisme
11,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Thule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈtʰuː.leː\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Thule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Thule is uncommon French at frequency #88,160 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈtʰuː.leː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Thulé, ile formant la limite septentrionale du monde connu chez les Anciens, peut-être les îles Féroé, le Groenland ou l’Islande.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Thule in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Thule, spelled T-H-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Thulé, ile formant la limite septentrionale du monde connu chez les Anciens, peut-être les îles Féroé, le Groenland ou l’Islande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
sic fit, ut vario lucis incremento in Mero‘ longissimus dies XII horas aequinoctiales et octo partes unius horae colligat, Alexandriae vero XIIII horas, in Italia XV, in Britannia XVII, ubi aestate lucidae noctes haut dubie se promittunt, id quod cogit ratio credi, solstiti diebus accedente sole propius verticem mundi angusto lucis ambitu subiecta terrae…
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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