Tess
\tɛs\
The verdict
“Tess” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,172) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,172
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diminutif de différents prénoms, dont Esther, Therese et leurs variantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tess · Tess · French
Tess · rank #19,172 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,172
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tarification
Nearest frequency peer: tarification (-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 « Tess »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tags
tags
80,832 corpus weight
- tain
tain
80,831 corpus weight
- tarification
tarification
80,830 corpus weight
- Tess
Tess
80,829 corpus weight
- testicules
testicules
80,828 corpus weight
- textos
textos
80,827 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Tess » 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 | Tess |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Tess »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tess is neighbouring look-alikes ("TS", "TPS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \tɛs\. Frequency #19,172 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tess, with forms such as "etss", "tses", and "ttess". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TS", "TPS", "tex", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Tess, spelled T-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Diminutif de différents prénoms, dont Esther, Therese et leurs variantes.
- 2Prénom féminin d’origine persane.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etss
- tses
- ttess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tess - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tess", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).