township
\tawn.ʃip\
The verdict
“township” is uncommon French (frequency #58,306 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,306
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cité (ensemble de quartiers) réservée aux Noirs au temps de l’apartheid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-township · township · French
township · rank #58,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH towards
Nearest frequency peer: towards (-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 « township »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tourangeau
Tourangeau
41,699 corpus weight
- Tournus
Tournus
41,698 corpus weight
- towards
towards
41,696 corpus weight
- township
township
41,695 corpus weight
- tracent
tracent
41,694 corpus weight
- trahira
trahira
41,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « township » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | township |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tawn.ʃip\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « township » en français
Rare enough to double-check
township is uncommon French at frequency #58,306 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tawn.ʃip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
township doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 township, spelled T-O-W-N-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1Cité (ensemble de quartiers) réservée aux Noirs au temps de l’apartheid.
- 2Canton, unité cadastrale de base du maillage mis en place en 1785 à l’ouest des Appalaches au Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how township appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans son étude sur les townships du Cap, Houssay-Holzschuch (1999) note que plusieurs décennies d’enfermement spatial ont participé à y installer avec rigidité des pratiques culturelles.
1ᵉʳ juillet 1845 : Création de la municipalité de canton de Grenville, «comprenant le township et l’augmentation de Grenville, avec le township de Harrington».
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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