turbot
\tyʁ.bo\
The verdict
“turbot” is uncommon French (frequency #77,108 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,108
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Poisson plat marin et de forme ovale, comestible recherché, de l'Atlantique, la Méditerranée et la mer Noire.
| 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) |
Where “turbot” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
turbot is uncommon French at frequency #77,108 among 164,488 “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.
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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Using “turbot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-U-R-B-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tyʁ.bo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.