toucan
\tu.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“toucan” is uncommon French (frequency #80,721 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,721
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à deux genres et 12 espèces d'oiseaux arboricoles grimpeurs de la taille d'une corneille, de la famille des ramphastidés (ordre des piciformes), caractérisés par leur bec très gros et trè...
Corpus desk
Index FR-toucan · toucan · French
toucan · rank #80,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,721
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torturait
Nearest frequency peer: torturait (-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 « toucan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tol
tol
19,283 corpus weight
- toon
toon
19,282 corpus weight
- torturait
torturait
19,281 corpus weight
- toucan
toucan
19,280 corpus weight
- tourbillonn…
tourbillonnant
19,278 corpus weight
- tourtes
tourtes
19,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toucan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toucan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tu.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toucan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toucan is uncommon French at frequency #80,721 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tu.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à deux genres et 12 espèces d'oiseaux arboricoles grimpeurs de la taille d'une corneille, de la famille des ramphastidés (ordre des piciformes), caractérisés par leur bec très gros et trè...".
No misspelling variants are generated for toucan in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 toucan, spelled T-O-U-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à deux genres et 12 espèces d'oiseaux arboricoles grimpeurs de la taille d'une corneille, de la famille des ramphastidés (ordre des piciformes), caractérisés par leur bec très gros et très long, souvent orné de patrons complexes de couleurs vives, à diète en majeure partie frugivore, et qui habitent les forêts primaires tropicales de l'écozone néotropicale continentale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how toucan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des toucans dont le bec est plus long que le corps entier.
Plus au sud, en haute Amazonie, les Jivaros Achuar réservent une place de choix à un autre oiseau encore, le toucan.
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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