tonka
\tɔ̃.ka\
The verdict
“tonka” is uncommon French (frequency #77,997 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,997
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de divers arbre du genre Dipteryx dont Dipteryx odorata et Dipteryx alata.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonka · tonka · French
tonka · rank #77,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,997
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tirerons
Nearest frequency peer: tirerons (-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 « tonka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thirion
Thirion
22,010 corpus weight
- Thémistocle
Thémistocle
22,008 corpus weight
- tirerons
tirerons
22,005 corpus weight
- tonka
tonka
22,004 corpus weight
- tonnages
tonnages
22,003 corpus weight
- transformai…
transformaient
21,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonka is uncommon French at frequency #77,997 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ̃.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tonka in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tonka, spelled T-O-N-K-A.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de divers arbre du genre Dipteryx dont Dipteryx odorata et Dipteryx alata.
- 2Graine aromatique, utilisée en parfumerie et en alimentation, elle est produite par différents arbres d'Amérique du Sud du genre Dipteryx, elle contient de la coumarine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tonka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il donne la graine aromatique tonka, appelée en portugais cumaru.
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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