tooth
[tuːθ]
The verdict
“tooth” is uncommon French (frequency #88,176 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,176
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tooth · tooth · French
tooth · rank #88,176 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,176
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tonsure
Nearest frequency peer: tonsure (-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 « tooth »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tokens
tokens
11,829 corpus weight
- tolérait
tolérait
11,828 corpus weight
- tonsure
tonsure
11,826 corpus weight
- tooth
tooth
11,825 corpus weight
- toru
toru
11,824 corpus weight
- tove
tove
11,822 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tooth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tooth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tuːθ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tooth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tooth is uncommon French at frequency #88,176 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [tuːθ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dent.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tooth in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 tooth, spelled T-O-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1Dent.
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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