TGV
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,046
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
TGV is aFrenchnoun. It means: Train circulant à très grande vitesse (plus de 300 km/h), et exploité par la SNCF. Pronounced \te.ʒe.ve\. It ranks #8,046 in French word frequency. Often confused with tu and TV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | TGV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.ʒe.ve\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for TGV is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.ʒe.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,046 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for TGV in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is TGV, spelled T-G-V, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Train circulant à très grande vitesse (plus de 300 km/h), et exploité par la SNCF.
- 2Meuble représentant le train du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est très récemment entré dans le corpus héraldique français. Il est généralement représenté par une locomotive et éventuellement un wagon. Il est posé en fasce, l’avant orienté à dextre. À rapprocher de locomotive et wagonnet.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #8,046 in French
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