TCD
French, noun\te.se.de\
TCD is spelled T-C-D (3 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). TCD is a French masculine noun meaning “abbreviation of transport de chalands de débarquement – LPD (“landing platform dock”); a military sea transport that has a dock to embark…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sigle de tableau croisé dynamique”.
What does TCD mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineabbreviation of transport de chalands de débarquement – LPD (“landing platform dock”); a military sea transport that has a dock to embark and debark landing craft
noun
- 1
feminineinitialism of transformée en cosinus discrète (“discrete cosine transform”): DCT
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sigle de tableau croisé dynamique. 2. Sigle de thérapie comportementale dialectique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce TCD?
- \te.se.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is TCD in French?
TCD appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).