teenager
\ti.ne.dʒœʁ\
The verdict
“teenager” is uncommon French (frequency #93,306 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,306
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adolescent, jeune personne ayant entre 13 et 19 ans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teenager · teenager · French
teenager · rank #93,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tells
Nearest frequency peer: tells (+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 « teenager »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tatouées
tatouées
6,699 corpus weight
- taxations
taxations
6,698 corpus weight
- teenager
teenager
6,695 corpus weight
- tells
tells
6,694 corpus weight
- tens
tens
6,693 corpus weight
- tense
tense
6,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « teenager » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teenager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ne.dʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « teenager » en français
Rare enough to double-check
teenager is uncommon French at frequency #93,306 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.ne.dʒœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adolescent, jeune personne ayant entre 13 et 19 ans.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for teenager, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is teenager, spelled T-E-E-N-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Adolescent, jeune personne ayant entre 13 et 19 ans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teenager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne parlait pas de films pour adolescents, de musique de jeunes ou de mode teenager, tout simplement parce qu’il n’y avait pas de teenagers !
Quelles étaient vos distractions lorsque vous étiez teenager ? — Teenager ? Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire ? — Avant vingt ans.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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