tug
\tʌɡ\
The verdict
“tug” is uncommon French (frequency #92,292 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,292
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tug · tug · French
tug · rank #92,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,292
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Turckheim
Nearest frequency peer: Turckheim (+2 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 « tug »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tricotés
tricotés
7,713 corpus weight
- trilogies
trilogies
7,712 corpus weight
- tug
tug
7,709 corpus weight
- Turckheim
Turckheim
7,707 corpus weight
- typée
typée
7,706 corpus weight
- tâtonnement
tâtonnement
7,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tug » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʌɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #92,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tug » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tug is uncommon French at frequency #92,292 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʌɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tug in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tug, spelled T-U-G.
Definition
- 1Tirement.
- 2Remorqueur.
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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