tétrodon
\te.tʁo.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“tétrodon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de poisson osseux marin sans piquants, qui a la faculté de se gonfler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tetrodon · tétrodon · French
tétrodon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tétrodon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.tʁo.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tétrodon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.tʁo.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de poisson osseux marin sans piquants, qui a la faculté de se gonfler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tétrodon, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 tétrodon, spelled T-É-T-R-O-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de poisson osseux marin sans piquants, qui a la faculté de se gonfler.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.