toluène
\tɔ.ly.ɛn\
The verdict
“toluène” is uncommon French (frequency #72,796 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,796
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé aromatique de formule chimique brute C₇H₈, écrite aussi φ-CH₃. Il est utilisé comme solvant industriel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toluene · toluène · French
toluène · rank #72,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,796
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toaster
Nearest frequency peer: toaster (-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 « toluène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- théâtraux
théâtraux
27,208 corpus weight
- toaster
toaster
27,206 corpus weight
- toluène
toluène
27,205 corpus weight
- topologique
topologique
27,204 corpus weight
- totalitaris…
totalitarismes
27,202 corpus weight
- tourneurs
tourneurs
27,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toluène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toluène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ly.ɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toluène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toluène is uncommon French at frequency #72,796 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.ly.ɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé aromatique de formule chimique brute C₇H₈, écrite aussi φ-CH₃. Il est utilisé comme solvant industriel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for toluène, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is toluène, spelled T-O-L-U-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Composé aromatique de formule chimique brute C₇H₈, écrite aussi φ-CH₃. Il est utilisé comme solvant industriel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how toluène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1888, Baur prenait un brevet pour la fabrication de musc artificiel, en prenant comme point de départ un composé appelé toluène, qui est extrait du goudron de houille.
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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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