tomahawk
\tɔ.ma.ok\
The verdict
“tomahawk” is uncommon French (frequency #56,317 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,317
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hache de guerre dont se servaient les peuples indigènes de l’Amérique du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tomahawk · tomahawk · French
tomahawk · rank #56,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,317
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tissulaire
Nearest frequency peer: tissulaire (-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 « tomahawk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tera
tera
43,687 corpus weight
- tiendras
tiendras
43,686 corpus weight
- tissulaire
tissulaire
43,685 corpus weight
- tomahawk
tomahawk
43,684 corpus weight
- totems
totems
43,682 corpus weight
- Tourville
Tourville
43,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tomahawk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomahawk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ma.ok\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tomahawk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tomahawk is uncommon French at frequency #56,317 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.ma.ok\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hache de guerre dont se servaient les peuples indigènes de l’Amérique du Nord.".
tomahawk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tomahawk, spelled T-O-M-A-H-A-W-K.
Definition
- 1Hache de guerre dont se servaient les peuples indigènes de l’Amérique du Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tomahawk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous, plus ou moins, physiquement ou moralement, ils avaient échappé aux naufrages, aux incendies, aux tomahawks de l’Indien, aux casse-têtes du sauvage, au poteau du supplice, aux estomacs de la Polynésie !
Les chefs de guerre, le tomahawk à la main, le pennache en tête, les bras et la poitrine teints de sang, prennent la gauche.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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