took
\tʊk\
The verdict
“took” is uncommon French (frequency #51,782 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,782
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passé du verbe take.
Corpus desk
Index FR-took · took · French
took · rank #51,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,782
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thuringe
Nearest frequency peer: Thuringe (-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 « took »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- terrorisée
terrorisée
48,222 corpus weight
- Thuillier
Thuillier
48,221 corpus weight
- Thuringe
Thuringe
48,220 corpus weight
- took
took
48,219 corpus weight
- toucheras
toucheras
48,218 corpus weight
- touchons
touchons
48,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « took » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | took |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʊk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « took » en français
Rare enough to double-check
took is uncommon French at frequency #51,782 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʊk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passé du verbe take.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for took, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 took, spelled T-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Passé du verbe take.
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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