Tessé
\tɛ.se\
The verdict
“Tessé” is uncommon French (frequency #83,429 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,429
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tesse · Tessé · French
Tessé · rank #83,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,429
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tere
Nearest frequency peer: tere (-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 « Tessé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tenet
tenet
16,576 corpus weight
- tentions
tentions
16,574 corpus weight
- tere
tere
16,573 corpus weight
- Tessé
Tessé
16,572 corpus weight
- testera
testera
16,571 corpus weight
- teutoniques
teutoniques
16,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tessé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tessé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tessé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tessé is uncommon French at frequency #83,429 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté en France.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tessé, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Tessé, spelled T-E-S-S-É.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tessé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
René de Froulay de Tessé.
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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