tellure
\tɛ.lyʁ\
The verdict
“tellure” is uncommon French (frequency #92,255 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,255
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de symbole chimique est Te et son numéro atomique 52, généralement classé parmi les métalloïdes en raison de ses propriétés intermédiaires entre métaux et non-métaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tellure · tellure · French
tellure · rank #92,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,255
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tengo
Nearest frequency peer: tengo (+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 « tellure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tazer
tazer
7,750 corpus weight
- techs
techs
7,748 corpus weight
- tellure
tellure
7,746 corpus weight
- tengo
tengo
7,745 corpus weight
- tentai
tentai
7,744 corpus weight
- terminologi…
terminologies
7,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tellure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tellure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tellure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tellure is uncommon French at frequency #92,255 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ.lyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tellure, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 tellure, spelled T-E-L-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de symbole chimique est Te et son numéro atomique 52, généralement classé parmi les métalloïdes en raison de ses propriétés intermédiaires entre métaux et non-métaux.
- 2Corps simple correspondant à cet élément, solide blanc bleuâtre à gris argenté, brillant, fragile et cassant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tellure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tellure a été découvert à la fin du dix-huitième siècle, dans les mines de Transylvanie.
Le tellure a deux degrés d’oxygénation connus, savoir : l’acide tellureux et l’acide tellurique.
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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