torchis
\tɔʁ.ʃi\
The verdict
“torchis” is uncommon French (frequency #73,612 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,612
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matériau constitué par un mélange de terre grasse argileuse, de chaux et de fibres végétales et éventuellement animales, notamment poils de vache, qui est utilisé pour lier les pierres d’un mur ou ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-torchis · torchis · French
torchis · rank #73,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,612
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toll
Nearest frequency peer: toll (-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 « torchis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Timmermans
Timmermans
26,392 corpus weight
- TLD
TLD
26,391 corpus weight
- toll
toll
26,390 corpus weight
- torchis
torchis
26,389 corpus weight
- Toriyama
Toriyama
26,388 corpus weight
- tranquil
tranquil
26,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « torchis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torchis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « torchis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
torchis is uncommon French at frequency #73,612 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔʁ.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Matériau constitué par un mélange de terre grasse argileuse, de chaux et de fibres végétales et éventuellement animales, notamment poils de vache, qui est utilisé pour lier les pierres d’un mur ou ...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for torchis, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is torchis, spelled T-O-R-C-H-I-S.
Definition
- 1Matériau constitué par un mélange de terre grasse argileuse, de chaux et de fibres végétales et éventuellement animales, notamment poils de vache, qui est utilisé pour lier les pierres d’un mur ou pour former le hourdis d’une construction en colombage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torchis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Édifiées en bois et en torchis, elles sont datées d’une phase récente du Néolithique, entre 3300 et 2900 avant notre ère.
La plupart des maisons avaient un rez-de-chaussée en pierre, des étages faits de tournisses sombres et d’un hourdage de torchis brun.
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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