tomcat
\ˈtɑm.kæt\
The verdict
“tomcat” is uncommon French (frequency #84,379 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,379
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chat mâle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tomcat · tomcat · French
tomcat · rank #84,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,379
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tomato
Nearest frequency peer: tomato (-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 « tomcat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tilté
tilté
15,625 corpus weight
- TMI
TMI
15,624 corpus weight
- tomato
tomato
15,623 corpus weight
- tomcat
tomcat
15,622 corpus weight
- Tomoko
Tomoko
15,621 corpus weight
- torrens
torrens
15,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tomcat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomcat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtɑm.kæt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tomcat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tomcat is uncommon French at frequency #84,379 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtɑm.kæt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tomcat, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tomcat, spelled T-O-M-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Chat mâle.
- 2Prédateur sexuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tomcat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My big lazy tomcat is always looking for food.
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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