Tolbiac
The verdict
“Tolbiac” is uncommon French (frequency #53,028 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,028
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de Zülpich.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tolbiac · Tolbiac · French
Tolbiac · rank #53,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,028
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tignasse
Nearest frequency peer: tignasse (-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 « Tolbiac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thx
thx
46,976 corpus weight
- tiare
tiare
46,975 corpus weight
- tignasse
tignasse
46,974 corpus weight
- Tolbiac
Tolbiac
46,973 corpus weight
- torpiller
torpiller
46,971 corpus weight
- totally
totally
46,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tolbiac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tolbiac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tolbiac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tolbiac is uncommon French at frequency #53,028 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Tolbiac, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Tolbiac, spelled T-O-L-B-I-A-C.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de Zülpich.
- 2La faculté de Tolbiac, officiellement centre Pierre-Mendès-France, à l'université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tolbiac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Christ s'est toujours montré, comme disaient nos pères, bon Français ! Oui, bon Français à Tolbiac ; bon Français à Patay ; bon Français à Paray-le-Monial où il nous a montré son Sacré-Cœur ; […].
Mais, depuis la bataille de Tolbiac et la conversion de Clovis, L’Église eut ses coudées franches et put rapidement asseoir son influence à travers le territoire.
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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