teaser
\ti.zœʁ\
The verdict
“teaser” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,560
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leurre sans hameçon créant une agitation dans l’eau, ressemblant à une proie en détresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teaser · teaser · French
teaser · rank #26,560 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,560
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tax
Nearest frequency peer: tax (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « teaser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tapette
tapette
73,444 corpus weight
- Tariq
Tariq
73,443 corpus weight
- tax
tax
73,442 corpus weight
- teaser
teaser
73,441 corpus weight
- terminait
terminait
73,440 corpus weight
- théologiques
théologiques
73,438 corpus weight
What this shows « teaser » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | teaser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.zœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « teaser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around teaser (IPA \ti.zœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,560 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for teaser, with forms such as "etaser", "taeser", and "teaesr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "tenter", "tester", "tracer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is teaser, spelled T-E-A-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Leurre sans hameçon créant une agitation dans l’eau, ressemblant à une proie en détresse.
- 2Aguiche, accroche
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teaser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Issu du verbe to tease qui signifie taquiner, le teaser est un objet dont le but est de créer une agitation dans l’eau susceptible d’attirer les poissons chasseurs.
Certains pêcheurs traînent d’abord le teaser et lorsqu’un poisson montre des signes d’intérêt, ils le remplacent rapidement par un leurre à hameçon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etaser
- taeser
- teaesr
- teaserr
- teasre
- teasser
- tesaer
- tteaser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of teaser - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).