Tellier
\te.lje\
The verdict
“Tellier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,836
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tellier · Tellier · French
Tellier · rank #30,836 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,836
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tendons
Nearest frequency peer: tendons (+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 « Tellier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tabernacle
tabernacle
69,168 corpus weight
- tailleurs
tailleurs
69,167 corpus weight
- Tellier
Tellier
69,165 corpus weight
- tendons
tendons
69,164 corpus weight
- tiendrai
tiendrai
69,163 corpus weight
- TK
TK
69,162 corpus weight
What this shows « Tellier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tellier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \te.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tellier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Tellier (IPA \te.lje\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,836 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tellier, with forms such as "etllier", "telier", and "teliler". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "terrier", "Tessier", "telle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Tellier, spelled T-E-L-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tellier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand Billy Tellier gagne pour s’être moqué de la vie sexuelle de Valérie Roberts et Martin Juneau, j’aimerais ça que vous m’en fassiez jouer un extrait pour que je comprenne pourquoi c’est drôle.
Parmi les avant-premières, une autre biographie est très attendue : « L’Abbé Pierre, une vie de combats », de Frédéric Tellier, où Benjamin Lavernhe (de la Comédie française) incarne le fondateur du mouvement Emmaüs (le 8 novembre en salle).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etllier
- telier
- teliler
- telleir
- tellierr
- tellire
- tlelier
- ttellier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tellier - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tellier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).