téléchargement
\te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“téléchargement” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,791 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,791
- frequency rank, French
- 14
- letters
- 23
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Transfert de programmes ou de données d’un ordinateur vers un autre.
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 | téléchargement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #8,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “téléchargement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for téléchargement is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,791 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Transfert de programmes ou de données d’un ordinateur vers un autre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for téléchargement, with forms such as "telechargement", "tlééchargement", and "ttéléchargement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "téléchargements", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is téléchargement, spelled T-É-L-É-C-H-A-R-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Transfert de programmes ou de données d’un ordinateur vers un autre.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: telechargement,tlééchargement,ttéléchargement,télcéhargement,télléchargement,télécahrgement,télécchargement,téléchagrement,télécharegment,téléchargeemnt,téléchargemennt,téléchargementt,téléchargemetn,téléchargemment,téléchargemnet,télécharggement,téléchargmeent,télécharrgement,téléchhargement,téléchragement,téléhcargement,téélchargement,étléchargement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of téléchargement - 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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Using “téléchargement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-É-L-É-C-H-A-R-G-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “téléchargements” - see the side-by-side comparison. téléchargement vs téléchargements
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.