Télémaque
\te.le.mak\
The verdict
“Télémaque” is uncommon French (frequency #57,000 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,000
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fils d’Ulysse et de Pénélope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-telemaque · Télémaque · French
Télémaque · rank #57,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,000
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tâchons
Nearest frequency peer: tâchons (-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 « Télémaque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- turbulente
turbulente
43,004 corpus weight
- turnover
turnover
43,003 corpus weight
- tâchons
tâchons
43,002 corpus weight
- Télémaque
Télémaque
43,001 corpus weight
- univoque
univoque
43,000 corpus weight
- urologue
urologue
42,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Télémaque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Télémaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \te.le.mak\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Télémaque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Télémaque is uncommon French at frequency #57,000 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \te.le.mak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Télémaque has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Télémaque, spelled T-É-L-É-M-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Fils d’Ulysse et de Pénélope.
- 2(15913) Télémaque, internationalement (15913) Telemachus, un astéroïde troyen jovien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Télémaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est au chant I : parce que la sage Pénélope a demandé à l’aède de cesser de jouer, elle se fait rabrouer devant les prétendants par son fils, Télémaque, et ordonner sans ambages de retourner dans ses appartements.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).