tele
\ˈte.le\
The verdict
“tele” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,408) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,408
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Télé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tele · tele · French
tele · rank #24,408 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,408
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH talentueuse
Nearest frequency peer: talentueuse (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tele”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- suppressions
suppressions
75,596 corpus weight
- surmontée
surmontée
75,595 corpus weight
- talentueuse
talentueuse
75,594 corpus weight
- tele
tele
75,593 corpus weight
- Terminator
Terminator
75,592 corpus weight
- tomas
tomas
75,591 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tele” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | tele |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈte.le\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “tele” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tele is neighbouring look-alikes ("Tl", "tes", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈte.le\. Frequency #24,408 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Télé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for tele, with forms such as "etle", "teel", and "tlee". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tl", "tes", "tué", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tele, spelled T-E-L-E.
Definition
- 1Télé.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etle
- teel
- tlee
- ttele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tele - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tele", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
You've looked up "tele". Here's where to go from here.
- "tele" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Tl". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #24,408 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "T" letter cohort. T–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.