topaze
\tɔ.paz\
The verdict
“topaze” is uncommon French (frequency #51,181 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,181
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Minéral, de la famille des nésosubsilicates, de formule Al₂SiO₄(F,OH)₂ ; transparente brillante, de couleur jaune, elle est utilisée en joaillerie comme pierre fine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-topaze · topaze · French
topaze · rank #51,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,181
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tièdes
Nearest frequency peer: tièdes (-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 « topaze »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- TDS
TDS
48,826 corpus weight
- tièdes
tièdes
48,821 corpus weight
- topaze
topaze
48,820 corpus weight
- trafiqué
trafiqué
48,818 corpus weight
- traiteurs
traiteurs
48,817 corpus weight
- transfronta…
transfrontaliers
48,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « topaze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | topaze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.paz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « topaze » en français
Rare enough to double-check
topaze is uncommon French at frequency #51,181 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.paz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Minéral, de la famille des nésosubsilicates, de formule Al₂SiO₄(F,OH)₂ ; transparente brillante, de couleur jaune, elle est utilisée en joaillerie comme pierre fine.".
topaze doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is topaze, spelled T-O-P-A-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Minéral, de la famille des nésosubsilicates, de formule Al₂SiO₄(F,OH)₂ ; transparente brillante, de couleur jaune, elle est utilisée en joaillerie comme pierre fine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how topaze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Henriquez coula à son doigt la topaze ensanglantée, et pendit à ses oreilles les améthystes taillées en forme de gouttes de sang.
Afin d’en finir avec cette orfèvrerie symbolique, disons encore que […] la sarde évoque les Séraphins, la topaze les Chérubins, le jaspe les Trônes, la chrysolithe les Dominations, le saphir les Vertus, l’onyx les Puissances, le béryl les Principautés, le rubis les Archanges et l’émeraude les Anges.
This word in other languages
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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