torticolis
\tɔʁ.ti.kɔ.li\
The verdict
“torticolis” is uncommon French (frequency #54,961 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,961
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracture du cou, qui fait qu’on ne peut le tourner sans douleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torticolis · torticolis · French
torticolis · rank #54,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,961
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toniques
Nearest frequency peer: toniques (-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 « torticolis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tipi
tipi
45,044 corpus weight
- TMZ
TMZ
45,043 corpus weight
- toniques
toniques
45,041 corpus weight
- torticolis
torticolis
45,040 corpus weight
- tournoyer
tournoyer
45,039 corpus weight
- traduisez
traduisez
45,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « torticolis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torticolis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.ti.kɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « torticolis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
torticolis is uncommon French at frequency #54,961 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔʁ.ti.kɔ.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contracture du cou, qui fait qu’on ne peut le tourner sans douleur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for torticolis in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is torticolis, spelled T-O-R-T-I-C-O-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Contracture du cou, qui fait qu’on ne peut le tourner sans douleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torticolis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, dans le commencement cela donne le torticolis à force de regarder
Je crois que j’ai un torticolis, reprenait languissamment la blonde Suzanne. Non, vrai, si ça avait duré une minute de plus, j’aurais remis ma tête d’une façon naturelle, tant j’avais mal au cou.
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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