télégraphes
\te.le.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“télégraphes” is uncommon French (frequency #67,180 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,180
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de télégraphe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-telegraphes · télégraphes · French
télégraphes · rank #67,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,180
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tuk
Nearest frequency peer: tuk (-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 « télégraphes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trunks
trunks
32,826 corpus weight
- tueraient
tueraient
32,823 corpus weight
- tuk
tuk
32,822 corpus weight
- télégraphes
télégraphes
32,821 corpus weight
- têtards
têtards
32,820 corpus weight
- ubiquité
ubiquité
32,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « télégraphes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | télégraphes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.le.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « télégraphes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
télégraphes is uncommon French at frequency #67,180 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.le.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de télégraphe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for télégraphes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists 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 télégraphes, spelled T-É-L-É-G-R-A-P-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de télégraphe.
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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