tek
\tɛk\
The verdict
“tek” is uncommon French (frequency #61,937 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,937
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de teck.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tek · tek · French
tek · rank #61,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,937
- 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 (-2 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 « tek »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tassin
Tassin
38,069 corpus weight
- TCA
TCA
38,067 corpus weight
- Tchéquie
Tchéquie
38,066 corpus weight
- tek
tek
38,064 corpus weight
- tendancieux
tendancieux
38,060 corpus weight
- ternaire
ternaire
38,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tek » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tek |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tek » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tek is uncommon French at frequency #61,937 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de teck.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tek, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tek, spelled T-E-K.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de teck.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des yoles de bois de tek vernissé et ciré.
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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