terras
\tɛ.ʁas\
The verdict
“terras” is uncommon French (frequency #97,477 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,477
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résine recueillie au pied des pins, parfois à même le sol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terras · terras · French
terras · rank #97,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,477
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terrils
Nearest frequency peer: terrils (+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 « terras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taloche
taloche
2,529 corpus weight
- tards
tards
2,527 corpus weight
- tartarin
tartarin
2,526 corpus weight
- terras
terras
2,524 corpus weight
- terrils
terrils
2,523 corpus weight
- thier
thier
2,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terras is uncommon French at frequency #97,477 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ.ʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Résine recueillie au pied des pins, parfois à même le sol.".
terras doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is terras, spelled T-E-R-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Résine recueillie au pied des pins, parfois à même le sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il est encore une autre récolte que celle de la gème [sic], c'est celle du barrat ou galipot de 1ᵉʳ ou 2ⁿᵈ classe, et celle du terras. — (Tessier et Bosc, Annales de l'agriculture française, Tome 61, Éd.Huzard, Paris 1815)
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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