Turkish
\ˈtɝ.kɪʃ\
The verdict
“Turkish” is uncommon French (frequency #50,556 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,556
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Turc. Relatif à la Turquie ou aux Turcs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turkish · Turkish · French
Turkish · rank #50,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,556
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triomphalement
Nearest frequency peer: triomphalement (-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 « Turkish »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- treasure
treasure
49,448 corpus weight
- trimestriel…
trimestrielles
49,447 corpus weight
- triomphalem…
triomphalement
49,446 corpus weight
- Turkish
Turkish
49,445 corpus weight
- tutelles
tutelles
49,444 corpus weight
- twice
twice
49,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Turkish » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Turkish |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈtɝ.kɪʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Turkish » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Turkish is uncommon French at frequency #50,556 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈtɝ.kɪʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Turkish in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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, 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 Turkish, spelled T-U-R-K-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Turc. Relatif à la Turquie ou aux Turcs.
- 2Turc. Relatif à la langue turque.
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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