THC
\te.aʃ.se\
The verdict
“THC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,694) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,694
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de tétrahydrocannabinol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thc · THC · French
THC · rank #43,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teigne
Nearest frequency peer: teigne (-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 « THC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tchang
tchang
56,310 corpus weight
- tears
tears
56,309 corpus weight
- teigne
teigne
56,308 corpus weight
- THC
THC
56,307 corpus weight
- Therrien
Therrien
56,306 corpus weight
- thorn
thorn
56,305 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « THC » 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 | THC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.aʃ.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « THC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for THC is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \te.aʃ.se\. Frequency #43,694 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de tétrahydrocannabinol.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for THC, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is THC, spelled T-H-C.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de tétrahydrocannabinol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how THC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, le chanvre cultivé dans des zones tempérées est riche en acide cannabidiolique et en cannabidiol (environ 80 % des cannabinoïdes totaux) alors qu’il ne contient que peu de THC (moins de 0,2 %). Sous un climat chaud et sec, la proportion de THC augmente alors que la teneur en acide cannabidiolique et en cannabidiol diminue.
Précurseur de cette aventure, le professeur Raphael Me choulam de l'Université hébraïque de Jérusalem, 86 ans, a isolé en 1964 le tétrahydrocannabinol (THC), c'est à dire l'unique composant actif de la plante qui produit l'effet psychotrope, ainsi que le cannabidiol (CBD) aux propriétés anti-inflammatoires.
Synonyms
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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