tétine
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,561
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tétine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pis de la vache ou de la truie. Pronounced \te.tin\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tétine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.tin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tétine is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.tin\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,561 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 tétine 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 tétine, spelled T-É-T-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pis de la vache ou de la truie.
- 2Embouchure, généralement en caoutchouc, s’adaptant à un biberon pour que l’enfant puisse téter ce qu’il contient.
- 3Petit objet doté d’une pièce en caoutchouc et servant de succédané de biberon afin d’occuper un petit enfant.
- 4Composant qui alimente un tube cathodique.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #50,561 in French
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