touille
\tuj\
The verdict
“touille” is uncommon French (frequency #92,280 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,280
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pelle en bois, pour le touillage ou la manipulation des fécules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touille · touille · French
touille · rank #92,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,280
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torturant
Nearest frequency peer: torturant (-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 « touille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tones
tones
7,724 corpus weight
- tonnant
tonnant
7,723 corpus weight
- torturant
torturant
7,722 corpus weight
- touille
touille
7,721 corpus weight
- toussant
toussant
7,720 corpus weight
- trafiquée
trafiquée
7,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touille is uncommon French at frequency #92,280 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
touille doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 touille, spelled T-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pelle en bois, pour le touillage ou la manipulation des fécules.
- 2Requin, en particulier le requin-taupe commun (Lamna nasus) ou la roussette (Atlantique et Méditerranée).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how touille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La touille encore appelée lamie ou taupe de mer, atteint 4 mètres, elle est pêchée pour l'huile que fournit son foie, pour son cuir et pour sa chair que l'on consomme fraîche, salée ou fumée.
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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