tétée
\te.te\
The verdict
“tétée” is uncommon French (frequency #77,116 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,116
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action pour un bébé humain ou animal de téter le sein de sa mère ou d'une nourrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tetee · tétée · French
tétée · rank #77,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,116
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH téléporté
Nearest frequency peer: téléporté (-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 « tétée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tâchera
tâchera
22,888 corpus weight
- télépathe
télépathe
22,887 corpus weight
- téléporté
téléporté
22,886 corpus weight
- tétée
tétée
22,885 corpus weight
- Ufa
Ufa
22,884 corpus weight
- ultrason
ultrason
22,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tétée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tétée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tétée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tétée is uncommon French at frequency #77,116 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action pour un bébé humain ou animal de téter le sein de sa mère ou d'une nourrice.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tétée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tétée, spelled T-É-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Action pour un bébé humain ou animal de téter le sein de sa mère ou d'une nourrice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tétée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’heure de la tétée.
Une tétée copieuse.
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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