typ
\tyːp\
The verdict
“typ” is uncommon French (frequency #81,659 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,659
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de typen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-typ · typ · French
typ · rank #81,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,659
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Twente
Nearest frequency peer: Twente (-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 « typ »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- turbocompre…
turbocompresseur
18,344 corpus weight
- Twente
Twente
18,343 corpus weight
- typ
typ
18,342 corpus weight
- tétras
tétras
18,341 corpus weight
- utilisions
utilisions
18,338 corpus weight
- utilisèrent
utilisèrent
18,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « typ » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | typ |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tyːp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #81,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « typ » en français
Rare enough to double-check
typ is uncommon French at frequency #81,659 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tyːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de typen.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for typ, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 typ, spelled T-Y-P.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de typen.
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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