tongue
\tʌŋ\
The verdict
“tongue” is uncommon French (frequency #58,987 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,987
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tongue · tongue · French
tongue · rank #58,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,987
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toboggans
Nearest frequency peer: toboggans (-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 « tongue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- timo
timo
41,017 corpus weight
- toboggans
toboggans
41,015 corpus weight
- tongue
tongue
41,014 corpus weight
- Tornado
Tornado
41,013 corpus weight
- Touba
Touba
41,012 corpus weight
- tourterelle
tourterelle
41,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tongue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tongue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʌŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tongue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tongue is uncommon French at frequency #58,987 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʌŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
tongue has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tongue, spelled T-O-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Langue.
- 2Pièce sous les lacets de chaussure.
- 3Langue.
- 4Style d’expression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tongue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“It is an agglutinative tongue, meaning that is is a collection of morphemes or syllables that are grouped into words — very unusual”.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tongue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).