tevez
\ˈteː.ves\
The verdict
“tevez” is uncommon French (frequency #58,981 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,981
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de devez par durcissement (d → t) (d > t).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tevez · tevez · French
tevez · rank #58,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,981
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tempus
Nearest frequency peer: Tempus (-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 « tevez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tbilissi
Tbilissi
41,023 corpus weight
- tchatche
tchatche
41,022 corpus weight
- Tempus
Tempus
41,021 corpus weight
- tevez
tevez
41,020 corpus weight
- throne
throne
41,018 corpus weight
- timo
timo
41,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tevez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tevez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈteː.ves\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tevez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tevez is uncommon French at frequency #58,981 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈteː.ves\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de devez par durcissement (d → t) (d > t).".
Zero misspellings are on record for tevez in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 tevez, spelled T-E-V-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de devez par durcissement (d → t) (d > t).
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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