torque
\tɔʁk\
The verdict
“torque” is uncommon French (frequency #85,330 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,330
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Collier formé d’une tige de métal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torque · torque · French
torque · rank #85,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,330
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH topinambour
Nearest frequency peer: topinambour (-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 « torque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tolérera
tolérera
14,674 corpus weight
- tombstone
tombstone
14,673 corpus weight
- topinambour
topinambour
14,672 corpus weight
- torque
torque
14,671 corpus weight
- touffus
touffus
14,669 corpus weight
- tourer
tourer
14,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « torque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔʁk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « torque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
torque is uncommon French at frequency #85,330 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔʁk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for torque in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists 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 torque, spelled T-O-R-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Collier formé d’une tige de métal.
- 2Figure de voltige aérienne.
- 3Meuble représentant le bijou du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté ouverture vers la pointe (quand elle est vers le chef, on le dit versé).
- 4Pain en forme de couronne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bijou typique de la civilisation celtique, le torque est un collier rigide généralement fait d’une tige en métal, bronze, or ou argent qui est rigide aux deux extrémités et terminées par deux tampons sphériques. On le met en écartant ces deux extrémités. D’abord porté; par les Celtes, le torque est par la suite adopté par les Romains. Les torques féminins…
On nous montre dans une maison voisine un collier d’or, un torques gaulois, qu’on y a trouvé.
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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