tôlerie

\tɔl.ʁi\

/\tɔl.ʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“tôlerie” is uncommon French (frequency #78,021 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,021
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Industrie ou métier du tôlier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tolerie · tôlerie · French

tôlerie · rank #78,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,021
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tétralogie

Nearest frequency peer: tétralogie (-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 « tôlerie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tôlerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tôlerie
PropertyValue
Headwordtôlerie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔl.ʁi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#78,021
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tôlerie » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tôlerietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tétralogie » (#78,020), « UEM » (#78,022), « témoigna » (#78,019). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tôlerie » est au #78,021. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tôlerie is uncommon French at frequency #78,021 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔl.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

tôlerie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tôlerie, spelled T-Ô-L-E-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Industrie ou métier du tôlier.
  2. 2
    Fabrique de tôle.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des parties en tôle d’une construction ou d’un véhicule.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tôlerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En théorie il retape ces épaves : passage au marbre, tôlerie, mécanique, toujours réglo ; puis il revend les épaves remises à neuf, enfin, c'est ce qui apparaît au grand jour.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tôlerie"?
"tôlerie" is spelled T-Ô-L-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔl.ʁi\.
What does "tôlerie" mean?
As a noun, "tôlerie" means: Industrie ou métier du tôlier.
How do you pronounce "tôlerie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tôlerie" is \tɔl.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tôlerie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tôlerie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list