télécoms

\te.le.kɔm\

/\te.le.kɔm\/ noun

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The verdict

“télécoms” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,306
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de télécom.

Corpus desk

Index FR-telecoms · télécoms · French

télécoms · rank #20,306 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #20,306
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Uno

Nearest frequency peer: Uno (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « télécoms »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « télécoms » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

télécoms vs télécom
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for télécoms
PropertyValue
Headwordtélécoms
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\te.le.kɔm\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,306
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « télécoms »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.télécomsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Uno » (#20,307), « tourna » (#20,304), « usant » (#20,308). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « télécoms » est au #20,306. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around télécoms (IPA \te.le.kɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,306 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de télécom.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for télécoms, with forms such as "telecoms", "tléécoms", and "ttélécoms". 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, "télécom", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is télécoms, spelled T-É-L-É-C-O-M-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de télécom.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how télécoms appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il frayait dans le BTP, les télécoms, le nucléaire, les énergies, fossiles et renouvelables, alevinant dans tous les courants.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • telecoms
  • tléécoms
  • ttélécoms
  • télcéoms
  • téllécoms
  • téléccoms
  • télécmos
  • télécomms
  • télécomss
  • télécosm
  • téléocms
  • téélcoms
  • étlécoms

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of télécoms - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

telecoms2tléécoms2ttélécoms1télcéoms2téllécoms1téléccoms1télécmos2télécomms1
Edit distance from "télécoms"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "télécoms"?
"télécoms" is spelled T-É-L-É-C-O-M-S. The IPA pronunciation is \te.le.kɔm\.
What does "télécoms" mean?
As a noun, "télécoms" means: Pluriel de télécom.
What words are commonly confused with "télécoms"?
"télécoms" is commonly confused with "télécom". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "télécoms"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "télécoms" is \te.le.kɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "télécoms" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "télécoms", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

terminera13 variantssurvivent13 variantsstyliste13 variantsroutières13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list