turquis
\tyʁ.kis\
The verdict
“turquis” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné improprement au maïs, qui est originaire non de la Turquie, mais du Nouveau Monde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turquis · turquis · French
turquis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turquis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.kis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
turquis is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tyʁ.kis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné improprement au maïs, qui est originaire non de la Turquie, mais du Nouveau Monde.".
turquis has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is turquis, spelled T-U-R-Q-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom donné improprement au maïs, qui est originaire non de la Turquie, mais du Nouveau Monde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turquis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais plus on les tient en captivité, plus il faut être exact à leur fournir une nourriture qui leur convienne : outre le millet, les jaunes d'œufs, la soupe et la mie de pain, les jeunes poulets aiment aussi la navette, le chènevis et autres menus grains de ce genre, les pois, les fèves, les lentilles, le riz, l'orge et l'avoine mondés, le turquis écrasé…
Je revenais du bois par le turquis à Léon Poutiot.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.