tégument
\te.ɡy.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“tégument” is uncommon French (frequency #92,297 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,297
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu organique qui recouvre le corps des animaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tegument · tégument · French
tégument · rank #92,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,297
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tâtonnement
Nearest frequency peer: tâtonnement (-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 « tégument »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Turckheim
Turckheim
7,707 corpus weight
- typée
typée
7,706 corpus weight
- tâtonnement
tâtonnement
7,705 corpus weight
- tégument
tégument
7,704 corpus weight
- unidimensio…
unidimensionnel
7,701 corpus weight
- uniform
uniform
7,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tégument » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tégument |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.ɡy.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tégument » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tégument is uncommon French at frequency #92,297 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.ɡy.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tégument, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tégument, spelled T-É-G-U-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Tissu organique qui recouvre le corps des animaux.
- 2Enveloppe de l’ovule ou de la graine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tégument appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que l'on considère l'homme, les animaux quadrupèdes, les oiseaux, les cétacées, les poissons, les amphibies, les reptiles; quelle prodigieuse variété dans la figure, dans la proportion de leur corps, dans le nombre et dans la position de leurs membres, dans la substance de leur chair, de leurs os, de leurs téguments !
Mais ne pouvant penser à la fois à ce que j’étais et à ce que je serais, je pensais avec désespoir à tout ce tégument de caresses, de baisers, de sommeils amis, dont il faudrait bientôt me laisser dépouiller pour jamais.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).