turbot
\tyʁ.bo\
The verdict
“turbot” is uncommon French (frequency #77,108 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,108
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson plat marin et de forme ovale, comestible recherché, de l'Atlantique, la Méditerranée et la mer Noire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turbot · turbot · French
turbot · rank #77,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,108
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tuvalu
Nearest frequency peer: Tuvalu (+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 « turbot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- truculent
truculent
22,896 corpus weight
- trébuchant
trébuchant
22,895 corpus weight
- turbot
turbot
22,893 corpus weight
- Tuvalu
Tuvalu
22,892 corpus weight
- tyranniques
tyranniques
22,891 corpus weight
- tyrannosaure
tyrannosaure
22,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « turbot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turbot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.bo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « turbot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
turbot is uncommon French at frequency #77,108 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tyʁ.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson plat marin et de forme ovale, comestible recherché, de l'Atlantique, la Méditerranée et la mer Noire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for turbot in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is turbot, spelled T-U-R-B-O-T.
Definition
- 1Poisson plat marin et de forme ovale, comestible recherché, de l'Atlantique, la Méditerranée et la mer Noire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turbot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est au moment où les eaux retournent à la mer qu'on fait dans ces graux la singulière pêche du turbot, qui rappelle celle des Écossais, décrite dans le Redgauntlet de Walter-Scott.
« Allons souper ! » Un lustre de cuivre à quarante bougies éclairait la salle […] ; et cette lumière crue, tombant d'aplomb, rendait plus blanc encore, parmi les hors-d'œuvre et les fruits, un gigantesque turbot occupant le milieu de la nappe.
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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