tertio
\tɛʁ.sjo\
The verdict
“tertio” is uncommon French (frequency #59,681 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,681
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisièmement, en troisième lieu. Il s’emploie pour désigner le troisième article d’une série, quand on a commencé à compter par primo et secundo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tertio · tertio · French
tertio · rank #59,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,681
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tchi
Nearest frequency peer: tchi (-2 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 « tertio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tapoter
tapoter
40,324 corpus weight
- tatin
tatin
40,323 corpus weight
- tchi
tchi
40,322 corpus weight
- tertio
tertio
40,320 corpus weight
- thermomètres
thermomètres
40,318 corpus weight
- throw
throw
40,317 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tertio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tertio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.sjo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tertio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tertio is uncommon French at frequency #59,681 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \tɛʁ.sjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisièmement, en troisième lieu. Il s’emploie pour désigner le troisième article d’une série, quand on a commencé à compter par primo et secundo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tertio, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tertio, spelled T-E-R-T-I-O.
Definition
- 1Troisièmement, en troisième lieu. Il s’emploie pour désigner le troisième article d’une série, quand on a commencé à compter par primo et secundo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tertio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Primo, cette pouf n’était pas à poil, deuxio, cette pouf n’est pas une pouf, et tertio, tu as 18 ans, et je crois qu’il est temps d’abandonner cette règle.
– Primo, Charles n’est pas aux ordres de Mademoiselle. Deuzio, rira bien qui rira le dernier. Tertio… N’imaginant pas ce que pourrait être ce tertio, elle conclut : – Ça t’en bouche un coin, hein !
This word in other languages
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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