Tornado
\tɔrˈnaːdo\
The verdict
“Tornado” is uncommon French (frequency #58,988 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,988
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tornade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tornado · Tornado · French
Tornado · rank #58,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,988
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tongue
Nearest frequency peer: tongue (-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 « Tornado »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- toboggans
toboggans
41,015 corpus weight
- tongue
tongue
41,014 corpus weight
- Tornado
Tornado
41,013 corpus weight
- Touba
Touba
41,012 corpus weight
- tourterelle
tourterelle
41,011 corpus weight
- toxicologiq…
toxicologiques
41,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tornado » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tornado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔrˈnaːdo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tornado » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tornado is uncommon French at frequency #58,988 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔrˈnaːdo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tornade.".
Tornado has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Tornado, spelled T-O-R-N-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Tornade.
Synonyms
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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