tuques
\tyk\
The verdict
“tuques” is uncommon French (frequency #91,254 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,254
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tuque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuques · tuques · French
tuques · rank #91,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,254
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tubéreuse
Nearest frequency peer: tubéreuse (-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 « tuques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- troublait
troublait
8,750 corpus weight
- tuan
tuan
8,749 corpus weight
- tubéreuse
tubéreuse
8,748 corpus weight
- tuques
tuques
8,747 corpus weight
- turbos
turbos
8,746 corpus weight
- téléphoniste
téléphoniste
8,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tuques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tuques is uncommon French at frequency #91,254 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tyk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tuque.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tuques in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tuques, spelled T-U-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tuque.
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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