tep
\tɛp\
The verdict
“tep” is uncommon French (frequency #55,643 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,643
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure énergétique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tep · tep · French
tep · rank #55,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,643
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH temporiser
Nearest frequency peer: temporiser (-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 « tep »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tartiflette
tartiflette
44,361 corpus weight
- Taïwanaise
Taïwanaise
44,360 corpus weight
- temporiser
temporiser
44,359 corpus weight
- tep
tep
44,358 corpus weight
- texane
texane
44,357 corpus weight
- Theron
Theron
44,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tep » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tep » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tep is uncommon French at frequency #55,643 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure énergétique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tep in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
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 tep, spelled T-E-P.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure énergétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 tep = 10 Gcal, soit environ 42 GJ.
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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