thérèse
\te.ʁɛz\
The verdict
“thérèse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,755. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,755
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coiffure de femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-therese · thérèse · French
thérèse · rank #9,755 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,755
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Terry
Nearest frequency peer: Terry (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « thérèse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- terriblement
terriblement
90,249 corpus weight
- terribles
terribles
90,248 corpus weight
- Terry
Terry
90,247 corpus weight
- thérèse
thérèse
90,246 corpus weight
- tranquillité
tranquillité
90,245 corpus weight
- trip
trip
90,244 corpus weight
What this shows « thérèse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | thérèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.ʁɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « thérèse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around thérèse (IPA \te.ʁɛz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,755 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for thérèse, with forms such as "htérèse", "therese", and "thhérèse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "thèse", "three", "thèses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is thérèse, spelled T-H-É-R-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Coiffure de femme.
- 2(Normandie) Espèce de capuchon de deuil, grand voile noir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thérèse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il faisait froid, les dames portaient non pas des mantes, mais des thérèses. Figurez-vous un grand morceau de cotonnade qu’on vous poserait sur la tête, cachant presque toute votre figure et descendant jusque sur votre taille, tout autour du corps ; et cette thérèse était serrée autour du cou par une coulisse ; par le froid et par la pluie, les dame…
En temps de deuil, on voilait tous ces hauts bonnets, parfois d’un grand voile de crêpe de soie, ou si le bonnet était une coiffure basse, on couvrait sa passe d’une pièce d’étoffe noire, repliée comme un mouchoir, et qu’on appelait une thérèse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htérèse
- therese
- thhérèse
- thréèse
- thérrèse
- thérsèe
- thérèes
- thérèsse
- théèrse
- tthérèse
- téhrèse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thérèse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).