Transvaal
\tʁɑ̃s.val\
The verdict
“Transvaal” is uncommon French (frequency #53,036 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,036
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne région et province d’Afrique du Sud (avant 1994) ; son territoire correspond aujourd’hui principalement aux provinces de Gauteng, Mpumalanga et Limpopo, ainsi qu’en partie à la province du...
Corpus desk
Index FR-transvaal · Transvaal · French
Transvaal · rank #53,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,036
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH translucides
Nearest frequency peer: translucides (-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 « Transvaal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trailers
trailers
46,968 corpus weight
- tranchent
tranchent
46,967 corpus weight
- translucides
translucides
46,966 corpus weight
- Transvaal
Transvaal
46,965 corpus weight
- traquent
traquent
46,964 corpus weight
- Travolta
Travolta
46,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Transvaal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Transvaal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.val\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Transvaal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Transvaal is uncommon French at frequency #53,036 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.val\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Transvaal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Transvaal, spelled T-R-A-N-S-V-A-A-L.
Definition
- 1Ancienne région et province d’Afrique du Sud (avant 1994) ; son territoire correspond aujourd’hui principalement aux provinces de Gauteng, Mpumalanga et Limpopo, ainsi qu’en partie à la province du Nord-Ouest.
- 2Quartier de la ville de Lyon situé dans le huitième arrondissement, au sud-est de Lyon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Transvaal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fermiers belges qui se rendraient au Transvaal, avec un capital minimum de 25 mille francs, y feraient fortune en quelques années.
Depuis l’annexion du Transvaal par les Britanniques en avril 1877, ces derniers n’avaient eu de cesse de s’inquiéter des risques de rébellion des Boers. Mais une autre menace, qui les préoccupait tout autant, était celle que représentait l’armée zouloue aux portes du Natal.
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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