têtard
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,669
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
têtard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Larve de batracien vivant dans l’eau et respirant par des branchies. Pronounced \tɛ.taʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | têtard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for têtard is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛ.taʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #57,669 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for têtard in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is têtard, spelled T-Ê-T-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Larve de batracien vivant dans l’eau et respirant par des branchies.
- 2Se dit de certains petits poissons à grosse tête, comme le chabot.
- 3Façon de tailler un arbre, de façon qu’il forme une touffe épaisse au sommet du tronc.
- 4Arbre dont on coupe régulièrement (3 à 10 ans) les branches pour fournir du bois, et que l'on laisse repousser. Au bout de plusieurs tailles l'arbre prend cet aspect caractéristique d'où il tire son nom.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,669 in French
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