Tompkins
The verdict
“Tompkins” is uncommon French (frequency #93,330 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,330
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tompkins · Tompkins · French
Tompkins · rank #93,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,330
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tomasz
Nearest frequency peer: Tomasz (-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 « Tompkins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- toilet
toilet
6,673 corpus weight
- Tomasz
Tomasz
6,672 corpus weight
- Tompkins
Tompkins
6,671 corpus weight
- torsions
torsions
6,670 corpus weight
- tosa
tosa
6,669 corpus weight
- toucherez
toucherez
6,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tompkins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tompkins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tompkins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tompkins is uncommon French at frequency #93,330 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Tompkins, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Tompkins, spelled T-O-M-P-K-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tompkins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’où le succès de la North Face, qui cultive cet imaginaire : celui d’un fondateur, Douglas Tompkins, militant écologiste convaincu, et des produits destinés à la nature.
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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