ténébreuse
\te.ne.bʁøz\
The verdict
“ténébreuse” is uncommon French (frequency #50,560 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,560
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de ténébreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenebreuse · ténébreuse · French
ténébreuse · rank #50,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,560
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH téléfilms
Nearest frequency peer: téléfilms (-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 « ténébreuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tutelles
tutelles
49,444 corpus weight
- twice
twice
49,443 corpus weight
- téléfilms
téléfilms
49,442 corpus weight
- ténébreuse
ténébreuse
49,441 corpus weight
- tétine
tétine
49,440 corpus weight
- têtus
têtus
49,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ténébreuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ténébreuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \te.ne.bʁøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ténébreuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ténébreuse is uncommon French at frequency #50,560 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \te.ne.bʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de ténébreux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ténébreuse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ténébreuse, spelled T-É-N-É-B-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de ténébreux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ténébreuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoique, dans ce temps calamiteux, les paysans se hasardassent difficilement à venir en ville, Corentin vit un petit homme à figure ténébreuse, couvert d’une peau de bique, et qui portait à son bras un petit panier rond de forme écrasée, se dirigeant vers la maison de mademoiselle de Verneuil, après avoir jeté autour de lui des regards assez insouciants.
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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