toréador
\tɔ.ʁe.a.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“toréador” is uncommon French (frequency #98,574 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,574
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui combat les taureaux dans les courses publiques, toréro (terme qui le supplante).
Corpus desk
Index FR-toreador · toréador · French
toréador · rank #98,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,574
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torrente
Nearest frequency peer: torrente (-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 « toréador »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tonneliers
tonneliers
1,430 corpus weight
- tordait
tordait
1,429 corpus weight
- torrente
torrente
1,428 corpus weight
- toréador
toréador
1,427 corpus weight
- totémisme
totémisme
1,426 corpus weight
- touarègue
touarègue
1,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toréador » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toréador |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ʁe.a.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toréador » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toréador is uncommon French at frequency #98,574 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.ʁe.a.dɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui combat les taureaux dans les courses publiques, toréro (terme qui le supplante).".
No misspelling variants are generated for toréador in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is toréador, spelled T-O-R-É-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui combat les taureaux dans les courses publiques, toréro (terme qui le supplante).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how toréador appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toréador, en garde ! Et songe en combattant Qu’un œil noir te regarde Et que l’amour t’attend.
Car Pépita se montre assise Offrant son regard et son corps Au plus vieux doge de Venise Et rit du toréador.
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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