tessiture
\te.si.tyʁ\
The verdict
“tessiture” is uncommon French (frequency #75,300 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,300
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranche du registre la plus aisée d’une voix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tessiture · tessiture · French
tessiture · rank #75,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,300
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tertres
Nearest frequency peer: tertres (-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 « tessiture »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tenders
tenders
24,704 corpus weight
- terrassant
terrassant
24,703 corpus weight
- tertres
tertres
24,702 corpus weight
- tessiture
tessiture
24,701 corpus weight
- texts
texts
24,700 corpus weight
- Thunberg
Thunberg
24,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tessiture » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tessiture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.si.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tessiture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tessiture is uncommon French at frequency #75,300 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.si.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tessiture doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tessiture, spelled T-E-S-S-I-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Tranche du registre la plus aisée d’une voix.
- 2Amplitude des sons produits par un instrument de musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tessiture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’un élève se présente pour la première fois devant un professeur, ce dernier commence par rechercher sa tessiture.
J’appelle Howard Johnson, de tout temps l’un de mes préférés au baryton. Il peut descendre la tessiture de son instrument du ré bémol au si naturel.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).