toupin
\tu.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“toupin” is uncommon French (frequency #74,434 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,434
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de toupie sans fer, qu’on fait tourner à l’aide d’un fouet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toupin · toupin · French
toupin · rank #74,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,434
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transcendé
Nearest frequency peer: transcendé (+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 « toupin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tortueuse
tortueuse
25,570 corpus weight
- tota
tota
25,569 corpus weight
- toupin
toupin
25,567 corpus weight
- transcendé
transcendé
25,566 corpus weight
- transformer…
transformeront
25,565 corpus weight
- transformèr…
transformèrent
25,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toupin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toupin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tu.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toupin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toupin is uncommon French at frequency #74,434 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tu.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for toupin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is toupin, spelled T-O-U-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de toupie sans fer, qu’on fait tourner à l’aide d’un fouet.
- 2Instrument en forme de cône tronqué possédant des rainures servant de guide lors du commettage des grosses cordes. On dit aussi cochoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how toupin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ouvrier prend alors le toupin et le place entre les deux fils qu’il a étendus.
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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