téter
\te.te\
The verdict
“téter” is uncommon French (frequency #57,668 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,668
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sucer, en parlant du lait d’une femme ou de la femelle d’un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teter · téter · French
téter · rank #57,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,668
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Témiscouata
Nearest frequency peer: Témiscouata (-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 « téter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tumultueuses
tumultueuses
42,336 corpus weight
- tuèrent
tuèrent
42,335 corpus weight
- Témiscouata
Témiscouata
42,334 corpus weight
- téter
téter
42,333 corpus weight
- têtard
têtard
42,332 corpus weight
- ues
ues
42,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « téter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | téter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \te.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « téter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
téter is uncommon French at frequency #57,668 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \te.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for téter in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is téter, spelled T-É-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sucer, en parlant du lait d’une femme ou de la femelle d’un animal.
- 2Sucer quelque chose, suçoter.
- 3Boire des boissons alcoolisées plus que de raison.
- 4Boire lentement.
- 5Se dit d’une boule accolée au but (cochonnet).
- 6Quémander.
- 7Flagorner.
- 8Lambiner, hésiter, perdre son temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how téter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On l’appelait aussi le Ninoche, de ce qu’il était simple d’esprit et innocent comme un veau qui tète encore.
Depuis que les blanchons ne se font plus massacrer au nom du pelage qui les recouvre, ils naissent chaque année du côté des îles de la Madeleine, sur des morceaux de banquise qui leur donnent le droit de téter, l’espace de quelques semaines, le lait maternel.
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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