terrasse
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,819
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
terrasse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Levée de terre artificielle en plate-forme, ordinairement soutenue par de la maçonnerie. Pronounced \tɛ.ʁas\. It ranks #5,819 in French word frequency. Often confused with terrasser and terrace.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for terrasse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛ.ʁas\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,819 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for terrasse, with forms such as "etrrasse", "terarsse", and "terasse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "terrasser", "terrace", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is terrasse, spelled T-E-R-R-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Levée de terre artificielle en plate-forme, ordinairement soutenue par de la maçonnerie.
- 2Dans les endroits où le relief est accidenté, désigne des terrains aménagés horizontalement en étages et soutenus par des murets (→ voir terrasse agricole et rizière en terrasse).
- 3Plate-forme aménagée à l’un des étages d’une construction, sans faire saillie, à la différence du balcon.
- 4Type de toiture d’un édifice, lorsqu’elle est constituée d’une plate-forme maçonnée.
- 5Balcon de grande dimension.
- 6Partie en plein air d’un établissement public, café ou restaurant.
- 7Emplacement sur le trottoir d’une voie publique ou sur les places de stationnement de voitures où l’on dispose des tables et des chaises pour les consommateurs.
- 8Surface plane ou légèrement inclinée, en bordure d’un cours d’eau, vestige d’anciens niveaux d’écoulement.
- 9- Partie tendre qui se présente par veine dans un bloc de marbre ; cheval de terre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrrasse,terarsse,terasse,terrase,terrases,terrsase,trerasse,tterrasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for terrasse
Misspelling Variants of "terrasse"
Frequency rank: #5,819 in French
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