thuya
\ty.ja\
The verdict
“thuya” is uncommon French (frequency #89,248 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,248
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conifère qui se rapproche beaucoup du cyprès et dont le feuillage, aplati et toujours vert, s’élève en pyramide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thuya · thuya · French
thuya · rank #89,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,248
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thomiste
Nearest frequency peer: thomiste (-2 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 « thuya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thalamus
thalamus
10,758 corpus weight
- thomiste
thomiste
10,755 corpus weight
- thuya
thuya
10,753 corpus weight
- tipis
tipis
10,750 corpus weight
- toga
toga
10,749 corpus weight
- tonnellerie
tonnellerie
10,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thuya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thuya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.ja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thuya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thuya is uncommon French at frequency #89,248 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ty.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conifère qui se rapproche beaucoup du cyprès et dont le feuillage, aplati et toujours vert, s’élève en pyramide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for thuya in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 thuya, spelled T-H-U-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Conifère qui se rapproche beaucoup du cyprès et dont le feuillage, aplati et toujours vert, s’élève en pyramide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thuya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mᵐᵉ Saint-Alban quittait, pour venir voir ma mère, sa maison du coin de la rue, son étroit jardin où les clématites pâlissaient dans l’ombre des thuyas.
Ses lettres, aussitôt lues, –et avec quelle rapidité,– étaient jetées par Galswinthe dans une coffret de thuya qu’elle avait sur la commode de sa chambre.
This word in other languages
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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