tortilla
\toʁ.ti.ja\
The verdict
“tortilla” is uncommon French (frequency #56,985 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,985
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Galette plate faite avec de la farine de maïs nixtamalisée (en espagnol « tortilla ») et plus rarement avec de la farine de blé (en espagnol « tortilla de harina »), très populaire au Mexique et au...
Corpus desk
Index FR-tortilla · tortilla · French
tortilla · rank #56,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,985
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tracter
Nearest frequency peer: tracter (+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 « tortilla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- TLS
TLS
43,020 corpus weight
- toilettage
toilettage
43,019 corpus weight
- tortilla
tortilla
43,016 corpus weight
- tracter
tracter
43,015 corpus weight
- transgéniqu…
transgéniques
43,014 corpus weight
- transparency
transparency
43,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tortilla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tortilla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \toʁ.ti.ja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tortilla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tortilla is uncommon French at frequency #56,985 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \toʁ.ti.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tortilla in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tortilla, spelled T-O-R-T-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Galette plate faite avec de la farine de maïs nixtamalisée (en espagnol « tortilla ») et plus rarement avec de la farine de blé (en espagnol « tortilla de harina »), très populaire au Mexique et au Guatemala et utilisée en accompagnement de presque tous les plats mexicains.
- 2Spécialité espagnole qui s’apparente à une omelette (et, plus spécialement à une omelette aux pommes de terre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tortilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un sandwich enroulé (wrap en anglais) dans une tortilla de blé, voilà l'idée toute simple née en Californie dans les années 1990.
Les tacos sont des tortillas garnies de viande, de chorizo ou de poisson.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).