tet
\tɛt\
The verdict
“tet” is uncommon French (frequency #56,973 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,973
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre orthographe de tèt (ט), neuvième lettre des alphabets phénicien et hébreu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tet · tet · French
tet · rank #56,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,973
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenture
Nearest frequency peer: tenture (-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 « tet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tent
tent
43,030 corpus weight
- tenture
tenture
43,029 corpus weight
- tet
tet
43,028 corpus weight
- Thann
Thann
43,027 corpus weight
- thin
thin
43,026 corpus weight
- Thiriez
Thiriez
43,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tet is uncommon French at frequency #56,973 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre orthographe de tèt (ט), neuvième lettre des alphabets phénicien et hébreu.".
tet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tet, spelled T-E-T.
Definition
- 1Autre orthographe de tèt (ט), neuvième lettre des alphabets phénicien et hébreu.
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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