Tikal
The verdict
“Tikal” is uncommon French (frequency #90,250 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,250
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des plus grands sites archéologiques et centres urbains de la civilisation maya précolombienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tikal · Tikal · French
Tikal · rank #90,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,250
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Timour
Nearest frequency peer: Timour (+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 « Tikal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ternay
Ternay
9,754 corpus weight
- terrifier
terrifier
9,753 corpus weight
- Tikal
Tikal
9,751 corpus weight
- Timour
Timour
9,750 corpus weight
- TNA
TNA
9,749 corpus weight
- Togliatti
Togliatti
9,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tikal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tikal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tikal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tikal is uncommon French at frequency #90,250 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des plus grands sites archéologiques et centres urbains de la civilisation maya précolombienne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tikal in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Tikal, spelled T-I-K-A-L.
Definition
- 1Un des plus grands sites archéologiques et centres urbains de la civilisation maya précolombienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tikal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En plein milieu de Teotihuacán, bien recroquevillé sous la Voie des Morts, dans un canal d’écoulement où nous avions trouvé refuge, il a orchestré un orage durant deux heures avec autant de brio que le Jules de Céline dans Normance ; il est tombé dans la boue rouge de Labná ; un cochon a foncé sur lui à Sayil ; deux perroquets l’ont poursuivi à travers un…
Les touristes, tous membres d’une même famille, ont été vus pour la dernière fois mercredi dans le parc national de Tikal, a indiqué l’Institut guatémaltèque du tourisme.
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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