tourbeux
\tuʁ.bø\
The verdict
“tourbeux” is uncommon French (frequency #95,410 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,410
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contient de la tourbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourbeux · tourbeux · French
tourbeux · rank #95,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,410
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Toutatis
Nearest frequency peer: Toutatis (+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 « tourbeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- topaz
topaz
4,594 corpus weight
- tost
tost
4,593 corpus weight
- tourbeux
tourbeux
4,591 corpus weight
- Toutatis
Toutatis
4,590 corpus weight
- Tozeur
Tozeur
4,589 corpus weight
- transdiscip…
transdisciplinaire
4,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tourbeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourbeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tuʁ.bø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tourbeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tourbeux is uncommon French at frequency #95,410 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tuʁ.bø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui contient de la tourbe.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tourbeux, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tourbeux, spelled T-O-U-R-B-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui contient de la tourbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tourbeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans cette partie de son cours, la Lanterne reçoit les eaux de nombreux ruisseaux ou « rus » provenant des vallons tourbeux voisins.
L’érosion et la sédimentation glaciaires avaient laissé de nombreux points tourbeux parfois à des altitudes assez basses.
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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