télex
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#65,597
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
télex is aFrenchnoun. It means: Système de communication qui remplaçait, partiellement, le télégraphe en morse et qui a été largement supplanté par le fax et, totalement, par la messagerie électronique. Pronounced \te.lɛks\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | télex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.lɛks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for télex is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.lɛks\. Corpus data places it at rank #65,597 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for télex in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is télex, spelled T-É-L-E-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Système de communication qui remplaçait, partiellement, le télégraphe en morse et qui a été largement supplanté par le fax et, totalement, par la messagerie électronique.
- 2Message reçu par ce moyen.
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Frequency rank: #65,597 in French
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