thumb
\ˈθʌm\
The verdict
“thumb” is uncommon French (frequency #92,263 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,263
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pouce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thumb · thumb · French
thumb · rank #92,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,263
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thousands
Nearest frequency peer: thousands (-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 « thumb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- thêta
thêta
7,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thumb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thumb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈθʌm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thumb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thumb is uncommon French at frequency #92,263 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈθʌm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pouce.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for thumb, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is thumb, spelled T-H-U-M-B.
Definition
- 1Pouce.
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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