télépathe
\te.le.pat\
The verdict
“télépathe” is uncommon French (frequency #77,114 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,114
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne douée de télépathie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-telepathe · télépathe · French
télépathe · rank #77,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,114
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tâchera
Nearest frequency peer: tâchera (-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 « télépathe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tyrannosaure
tyrannosaure
22,890 corpus weight
- tyrosine
tyrosine
22,889 corpus weight
- tâchera
tâchera
22,888 corpus weight
- télépathe
télépathe
22,887 corpus weight
- téléporté
téléporté
22,886 corpus weight
- tétée
tétée
22,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « télépathe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | télépathe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.le.pat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « télépathe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
télépathe is uncommon French at frequency #77,114 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.le.pat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne douée de télépathie.".
télépathe has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 télépathe, spelled T-É-L-É-P-A-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1Personne douée de télépathie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how télépathe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les télépathes se répartissent en deux catégories distinctes, les autotélépathes qui approfondissent le gnothi seauton socratique, et les pseudotélépathes.
— Je suis cireur de bottes, monsieur ; et aussi commissionnaire. Mais tout cela ne serait rien. Je suis télépathe. — Hein ? — Télépathe. — Parfaitement. — Je reçois et je transmets la pensée à travers la distance. M. Broudier est un de mes abonnés.
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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