tétanisé
\te.ta.ni.ze\
The verdict
“tétanisé” is uncommon French (frequency #63,434 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,434
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans un état tétanique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tetanise · tétanisé · French
tétanisé · rank #63,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,434
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH télécopie
Nearest frequency peer: télécopie (-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 « tétanisé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tréguier
Tréguier
36,571 corpus weight
- télécopie
télécopie
36,568 corpus weight
- tétanisé
tétanisé
36,567 corpus weight
- unifiées
unifiées
36,566 corpus weight
- units
units
36,565 corpus weight
- uptown
uptown
36,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tétanisé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tétanisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \te.ta.ni.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tétanisé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tétanisé is uncommon French at frequency #63,434 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \te.ta.ni.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tétanisé in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tétanisé, spelled T-É-T-A-N-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Dans un état tétanique.
- 2Paralysé, incapable d’agir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tétanisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les yeux écarquillés, le jeune homme demeura immobile un moment, tétanisé, la panique l’engouffrant rapidement jusque dans les plus petites parcelles de son corps. Il aurait voulu s’approcher, palper le cou de son vieil ami visiblement mort, mais ne put bouger d’un centimètre. La tension grimpait dans ses veines, la chaleur montait dans son corps, et il r…
[…] un Québec tétanisé par la religion omniprésente et l’isolement étouffant qui avait cours dans notre société.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).