Touba

\tu.ba\

/\tu.ba\/ name

The verdict

“Touba” is uncommon French (frequency #58,989 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,989
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune du Sénégal, deuxième ville la plus peuplée du pays après la capitale Dakar.

Corpus desk

Index FR-touba · Touba · French

Touba · rank #58,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,989
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tornado

Nearest frequency peer: Tornado (-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 « Touba »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Touba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Touba
PropertyValue
HeadwordTouba
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\tu.ba\
Letters5
Frequency rank#58,989
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Touba » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Toubatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Tornado » (#58,988), « tourterelle » (#58,990), « tongue » (#58,987). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « Touba » est au #58,989. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Touba is uncommon French at frequency #58,989 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tu.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune du Sénégal, deuxième ville la plus peuplée du pays après la capitale Dakar.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Touba in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Touba, spelled T-O-U-B-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune du Sénégal, deuxième ville la plus peuplée du pays après la capitale Dakar.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Touba"?
"Touba" is spelled T-O-U-B-A. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.ba\.
What does "Touba" mean?
As a proper noun, "Touba" means: Commune du Sénégal, deuxième ville la plus peuplée du pays après la capitale Dakar.
How do you pronounce "Touba"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Touba" is \tu.ba\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Touba" come from?
"Touba" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Touba", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list