Tounkara

name

The verdict

“Tounkara” is uncommon French (frequency #93,334 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,334
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tounkara · Tounkara · French

Tounkara · rank #93,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,334
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH toucherez

Nearest frequency peer: toucherez (-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 « Tounkara »

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 « Tounkara » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Tounkara
PropertyValue
HeadwordTounkara
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#93,334
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Tounkara » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Tounkaratombe 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: « toucherez » (#93,333), « trahirait » (#93,335), « tosa » (#93,332). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « Tounkara » est au #93,334. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Tounkara is uncommon French at frequency #93,334 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tounkara, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Tounkara, spelled T-O-U-N-K-A-R-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Tounkara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ainsi, Oriane Jean-François, la prometteuse milieu de terrain du PSG, la gardienne Mylène Chavas et la défenseure Aïssatou Tounkara ont été écartées des 26 qui préparaient l’événement.

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 "Tounkara"?
"Tounkara" is spelled T-O-U-N-K-A-R-A.
What does "Tounkara" mean?
As a proper noun, "Tounkara" means: Nom de famille.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list