tétine
\te.tin\
The verdict
“tétine” is uncommon French (frequency #50,561 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,561
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pis de la vache ou de la truie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tetine · tétine · French
tétine · rank #50,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,561
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH ténébreuse
Nearest frequency peer: ténébreuse (-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 « tétine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- twice
twice
49,443 corpus weight
- téléfilms
téléfilms
49,442 corpus weight
- ténébreuse
ténébreuse
49,441 corpus weight
- tétine
tétine
49,440 corpus weight
- têtus
têtus
49,439 corpus weight
- understand
understand
49,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tétine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « tétine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tétine is uncommon French at frequency #50,561 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tétine in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tétine, spelled T-É-T-I-N-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tétine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tétine de vache.
Manger de la tétine.
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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