tez
[ˈteθ]
The verdict
“tez” is uncommon French (frequency #95,394 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,394
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tez · tez · French
tez · rank #95,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,394
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thaler
Nearest frequency peer: thaler (+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 « tez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tenenbaum
Tenenbaum
4,611 corpus weight
- Tergnier
Tergnier
4,609 corpus weight
- tez
tez
4,607 corpus weight
- thaler
thaler
4,606 corpus weight
- thao
thao
4,605 corpus weight
- Thessalonic…
Thessaloniciens
4,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈteθ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #95,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tez is uncommon French at frequency #95,394 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈteθ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Teint.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tez in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 tez, spelled T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Teint.
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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