tha
\tʰa˦\
The verdict
“tha” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,181) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,181
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Libérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tha · tha · French
tha · rank #43,181 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,181
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TFC
Nearest frequency peer: TFC (-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 « tha »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tchécoslova…
tchécoslovaque
56,823 corpus weight
- technicienne
technicienne
56,822 corpus weight
- TFC
TFC
56,821 corpus weight
- tha
tha
56,820 corpus weight
- theft
theft
56,819 corpus weight
- thérapeutes
thérapeutes
56,818 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tha » 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 | tha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʰa˦\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tha »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tha is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \tʰa˦\. Frequency #43,181 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tha, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tha, spelled T-H-A.
Definition
- 1Libérer.
- 2Pardonner ; tolérer ; remettre.
- 3Épargner ; ménager.
- 4Emporter entre ses dents ; emporter dans son bec.
- 5Traîner avec soi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Đó là một bệnh chẳng tha
Tha tội chết cho một người bị kết án
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).