terrifie
\tɛ.ʁi.fi\
The verdict
“terrifie” is uncommon French (frequency #54,953 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,953
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de terrifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrifie · terrifie · French
terrifie · rank #54,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenterons
Nearest frequency peer: tenterons (-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 « terrifie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Teixeira
Teixeira
45,052 corpus weight
- tendez
tendez
45,051 corpus weight
- tenions
tenions
45,050 corpus weight
- tenterons
tenterons
45,049 corpus weight
- terrifie
terrifie
45,048 corpus weight
- terrorisés
terrorisés
45,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrifie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrifie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁi.fi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terrifie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terrifie is uncommon French at frequency #54,953 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɛ.ʁi.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for terrifie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is terrifie, spelled T-E-R-R-I-F-I-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de terrifier.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de terrifier.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de terrifier.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de terrifier.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de terrifier.
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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