Tohoku
\tɔ.ɔ.ku\
The verdict
“Tohoku” is uncommon French (frequency #92,274 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,274
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région regroupant les six préfectures septentrionales de l’île de Honshu, l’île principale du Japon, ou région couvrant le nord-est de cette île.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tohoku · Tohoku · French
Tohoku · rank #92,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,274
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH titrent
Nearest frequency peer: titrent (-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 « Tohoku »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- timorée
timorée
7,732 corpus weight
- titrent
titrent
7,729 corpus weight
- Tohoku
Tohoku
7,727 corpus weight
- tones
tones
7,724 corpus weight
- tonnant
tonnant
7,723 corpus weight
- torturant
torturant
7,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tohoku » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tohoku |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ɔ.ku\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tohoku » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tohoku is uncommon French at frequency #92,274 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɔ.ɔ.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région regroupant les six préfectures septentrionales de l’île de Honshu, l’île principale du Japon, ou région couvrant le nord-est de cette île.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tohoku in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tohoku, spelled T-O-H-O-K-U.
Definition
- 1Région regroupant les six préfectures septentrionales de l’île de Honshu, l’île principale du Japon, ou région couvrant le nord-est de cette île.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tohoku appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’époque de la restauration ou de l’unificatoin, il y avait au Japon, sur le plan agricole, des régions avancées (par exemple, le Kinki) et des régions arriérées (telles que le Tohoku) ; or, l’un des principaux mérites du nouveau gouvernement fut d’aider l’application à l’échelle nationale de méthodes perfectionnées.
Dans la province de Fukushima, dans le Tohoku, près de Nihonmatsu, la « lande d’Adachi » est un haut-lieu. Depuis toujours il est dit qu’au « tertre noir » (Kurozuka) des démons sont enfermés.
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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