tétralogie
\te.tʁa.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“tétralogie” is uncommon French (frequency #78,020 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,020
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné à un ensemble de quatre pièces de théâtre que les poètes tragiques présentaient au concours : les trois premières étaient des tragédies, ordinairement liées entre elles, et la quatrième u...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tétralogie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.tʁa.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tétralogie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tétralogie is uncommon French at frequency #78,020 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.tʁa.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
tétralogie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tétralogie, spelled T-É-T-R-A-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à un ensemble de quatre pièces de théâtre que les poètes tragiques présentaient au concours : les trois premières étaient des tragédies, ordinairement liées entre elles, et la quatrième un drame satyrique.
- 2Dans le langage moderne, il désigne un ensemble de quatre drames lyriques.
- 3Ensemble de quatre films formant une saga, une continuité.
- 4Ensemble de quatre jeux formant une saga, une continuité.
- 5Roman en quatre tomes.
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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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Using “tétralogie”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-É-T-R-A-L-O-G-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \te.tʁa.lɔ.ʒi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.