tex
\tɛks\
The verdict
“tex” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,048) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,048
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure du titrage (masse linéique) des fils et filés, équivalant à 10⁻⁶ kg/m. Son symbole est tx.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tex · tex · French
tex · rank #23,048 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,048
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tentera
Nearest frequency peer: tentera (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tex »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- taillée
taillée
76,956 corpus weight
- tardé
tardé
76,955 corpus weight
- tentera
tentera
76,954 corpus weight
- tex
tex
76,953 corpus weight
- theme
theme
76,952 corpus weight
- thunes
thunes
76,951 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tex » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tex »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tex is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tɛks\. Frequency #23,048 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Unité de mesure du titrage (masse linéique) des fils et filés, équivalant à 10⁻⁶ kg/m. Son symbole est tx.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tex, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tex, spelled T-E-X.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure du titrage (masse linéique) des fils et filés, équivalant à 10⁻⁶ kg/m. Son symbole est tx.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un kilomètre de fil titrant un tex pèse un gramme.
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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