TCA
\te.se.a\
The verdict
“TCA” is uncommon French (frequency #61,934 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,934
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance dont la formule chimique est C₆H₂-Cl(3)-O-CH₃, qui donne le « goût de bouchon » aux bouchons en liège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tca · TCA · French
TCA · rank #61,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,934
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tchéquie
Nearest frequency peer: Tchéquie (+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 « TCA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tamouls
tamouls
38,071 corpus weight
- tarare
tarare
38,070 corpus weight
- Tassin
Tassin
38,069 corpus weight
- TCA
TCA
38,067 corpus weight
- Tchéquie
Tchéquie
38,066 corpus weight
- tek
tek
38,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « TCA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | TCA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.se.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « TCA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
TCA is uncommon French at frequency #61,934 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.se.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for TCA, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is TCA, spelled T-C-A.
Definition
- 1Substance dont la formule chimique est C₆H₂-Cl(3)-O-CH₃, qui donne le « goût de bouchon » aux bouchons en liège.
- 2Abréviation de titre de créance adossé.
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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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