tonsure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#88,175
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tonsure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Couronne traditionnellement dessinée sur la tête des clercs, prêtres, moines, etc. de l'Église catholique romaine, en leur rasant les cheveux en rond. Pronounced \tɔ̃.syʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonsure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tonsure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃.syʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,175 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tonsure in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tonsure, spelled T-O-N-S-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couronne traditionnellement dessinée sur la tête des clercs, prêtres, moines, etc. de l'Église catholique romaine, en leur rasant les cheveux en rond.
- 2Cérémonie de l’Église catholique romaine par laquelle l’évêque introduit un homme dans l’état ecclésiastique et lui donne le premier degré de la cléricature en lui coupant les cheveux au sommet de la tête.
- 3Calvitie affectant le haut du crâne.
- 4, Au sein d'une prairie, micro-biotope où la terre est nue au milieu de la végétation vivace, à cause d'un surpâturage, de la présence de taupinières ou de l'érosion naturelle.
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Frequency rank: #88,175 in French
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