TB
\te.be\
The verdict
“TB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,773) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,773
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très bien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tb · TB · French
TB · rank #28,773 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,773
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taxés
Nearest frequency peer: taxés (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “TB”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- surréalistes
surréalistes
71,232 corpus weight
- SV
SV
71,231 corpus weight
- taxés
taxés
71,229 corpus weight
- TB
TB
71,228 corpus weight
- testez
testez
71,226 corpus weight
- titularisat…
titularisation
71,225 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “TB” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | TB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \te.be\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #28,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “TB” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for TB is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "te", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \te.be\. Frequency #28,773 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Très bien.".
TB has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is TB, spelled T-B.
Definition
- 1Très bien.
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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- "TB" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "tu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #28,773 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.