touc
\tuk\
The verdict
“touc” is uncommon French (frequency #96,453 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,453
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canal, égout qui conduit des maisons les eaux sales aux rivières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touc · touc · French
touc · rank #96,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,453
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH topinambours
Nearest frequency peer: topinambours (-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 « touc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Toblerone
Toblerone
3,551 corpus weight
- Toine
Toine
3,550 corpus weight
- topinambours
topinambours
3,549 corpus weight
- touc
touc
3,548 corpus weight
- touron
touron
3,546 corpus weight
- toussé
toussé
3,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touc is uncommon French at frequency #96,453 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Canal, égout qui conduit des maisons les eaux sales aux rivières.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for touc, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is touc, spelled T-O-U-C.
Definition
- 1Canal, égout qui conduit des maisons les eaux sales aux rivières.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how touc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En creusant un touc à Nantes.
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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