terrasson
\tɛ.ʁa.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“terrasson” is uncommon French (frequency #77,081 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,081
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie supérieure la moins pentue d’un toit à l’italienne où d’un toit à la Mansart.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrasson · terrasson · French
terrasson · rank #77,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,081
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tenzin
Nearest frequency peer: Tenzin (-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 « terrasson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tarentule
tarentule
22,924 corpus weight
- tatare
tatare
22,923 corpus weight
- tempos
tempos
22,922 corpus weight
- Tenzin
Tenzin
22,921 corpus weight
- terrasson
terrasson
22,920 corpus weight
- territorial…
territorialement
22,919 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrasson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrasson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁa.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terrasson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terrasson is uncommon French at frequency #77,081 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ.ʁa.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for terrasson, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is terrasson, spelled T-E-R-R-A-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie supérieure la moins pentue d’un toit à l’italienne où d’un toit à la Mansart.
- 2Petite terrasse, couverture horizontale formant terrasse.
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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