touiller
\tu.je\
The verdict
“touiller” is uncommon French (frequency #99,712 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,712
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélanger, brasser, remuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touiller · touiller · French
touiller · rank #99,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,712
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tow
Nearest frequency peer: tow (+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 « touiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- titanesques
titanesques
293 corpus weight
- toges
toges
292 corpus weight
- topologiques
topologiques
291 corpus weight
- touiller
touiller
289 corpus weight
- tow
tow
288 corpus weight
- tragédienne
tragédienne
286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touiller is uncommon French at frequency #99,712 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mélanger, brasser, remuer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for touiller in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 touiller, spelled T-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mélanger, brasser, remuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je m'apprêtais à touiller sa soupe, qui était une soupe épaisse de légumes et de pommes de terre, pour la bien mélanger avec l'huile que j'avais versée dessus, mais mon père m'arrêta.
Pendant qu’il touillait le vin, la cassonade, le poivre et le pain dans le bol à punch, Angelo, qui contenait une furieuse envie de boire, avait la salive à la bouche.
Synonyms
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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