tonsilla
\ton.ˈsil.la\
The verdict
“tonsilla” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tonsille, amygdale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonsilla · tonsilla · French
tonsilla · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonsilla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ton.ˈsil.la\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonsilla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonsilla is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ton.ˈsil.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tonsille, amygdale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tonsilla in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tonsilla, spelled T-O-N-S-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Tonsille, amygdale.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.