tergiversations
\tɛʁ.ʒi.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“tergiversations” is uncommon French (frequency #51,777 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,777
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tergiversation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tergiversations · tergiversations · French
tergiversations · rank #51,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,777
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teintés
Nearest frequency peer: teintés (-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 « tergiversations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tannée
tannée
48,227 corpus weight
- tchadiens
tchadiens
48,226 corpus weight
- teintés
teintés
48,225 corpus weight
- tergiversat…
tergiversations
48,224 corpus weight
- terrifiés
terrifiés
48,223 corpus weight
- terrorisée
terrorisée
48,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tergiversations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tergiversations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.ʒi.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #51,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tergiversations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tergiversations is uncommon French at frequency #51,777 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛʁ.ʒi.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tergiversation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tergiversations, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tergiversations, spelled T-E-R-G-I-V-E-R-S-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tergiversation.
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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