tes
\tɛ\
The verdict
“tes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #297) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #297
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ton, ta.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tes · tes · French
tes · rank #297 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #297
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH vois
Nearest frequency peer: vois (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tes »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- près
près
99,707 corpus weight
- quel
quel
99,706 corpus weight
- tes
tes
99,704 corpus weight
- vois
vois
99,703 corpus weight
- aucun
aucun
99,702 corpus weight
- loi
loi
99,701 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tes » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \tɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tes »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tes is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced \tɛ\. Frequency #297 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de ton, ta.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tes, spelled T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ton, ta.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aime beaucoup tes copains
As-tu pensé à prendre tes clés.
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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