tourist
\ˈtʊə.ɹɪst\
The verdict
“tourist” is uncommon French (frequency #64,840 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,840
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Touriste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourist · tourist · French
tourist · rank #64,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,840
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH touffue
Nearest frequency peer: touffue (-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 « tourist »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tond
tond
35,165 corpus weight
- touffue
touffue
35,162 corpus weight
- tourist
tourist
35,161 corpus weight
- Tournay
Tournay
35,160 corpus weight
- transcrite
transcrite
35,159 corpus weight
- transformer…
transformerait
35,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tourist » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtʊə.ɹɪst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tourist » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tourist is uncommon French at frequency #64,840 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtʊə.ɹɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Touriste.".
tourist has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tourist, spelled T-O-U-R-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Touriste.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).