tycoon
\taj.kun\
The verdict
“tycoon” is uncommon French (frequency #78,018 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,018
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magnat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tycoon · tycoon · French
tycoon · rank #78,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,018
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TVs
Nearest frequency peer: TVs (-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 « tycoon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tutto
tutto
21,985 corpus weight
- TVs
TVs
21,984 corpus weight
- tycoon
tycoon
21,983 corpus weight
- témoigna
témoigna
21,982 corpus weight
- tétralogie
tétralogie
21,981 corpus weight
- tôlerie
tôlerie
21,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tycoon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tycoon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taj.kun\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tycoon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tycoon is uncommon French at frequency #78,018 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \taj.kun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Magnat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tycoon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tycoon, spelled T-Y-C-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Magnat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tycoon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’il s’agisse d’un tycoon, d’un grand industriel, d’une star cinématographique ou d’un saint, l’image de l’individu autonome n’a plus bonne presse.
Ce vrai libéral, en économie comme sur les questions de société, qui vient de racheter La Tribune, le quotidien concurrent des Échos, a bien débuté sa carrière de tycoon des médias.
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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