teu
\ˈtøː\
The verdict
“teu” is uncommon French (frequency #76,173 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,173
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de deu par durcissement (d → t).
Corpus desk
Index FR-teu · teu · French
teu · rank #76,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,173
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terrines
Nearest frequency peer: terrines (-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 « teu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Taverny
Taverny
23,833 corpus weight
- taza
taza
23,832 corpus weight
- terrines
terrines
23,829 corpus weight
- teu
teu
23,828 corpus weight
- tifosi
tifosi
23,827 corpus weight
- tifs
tifs
23,826 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « teu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtøː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « teu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
teu is uncommon French at frequency #76,173 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtøː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de deu par durcissement (d → t).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for teu, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 teu, spelled T-E-U.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de deu par durcissement (d → t).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Brema mab-kaer ar roue a lavar dʼezan eus a belecʼh e teu gant e vercʼh.
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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