Thule
\ˈtʰuː.leː\
The verdict
“Thule” is an uncommon French word, ranked #88,160 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #88,160
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Thulé, ile formant la limite septentrionale du monde connu chez les Anciens, peut-être les îles Féroé, le Groenland ou l’Islande.
| 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) |
Where “Thule” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Thule is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈtʰuː.leː\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,160 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “Thule”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-H-U-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈtʰuː.leː\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.