thesaurus
\te.zo.ʁys\
The verdict
“thesaurus” is uncommon French (frequency #71,125 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,125
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de thésaurus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thesaurus · thesaurus · French
thesaurus · rank #71,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,125
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thalia
Nearest frequency peer: Thalia (-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 « thesaurus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tenteraient
tenteraient
28,880 corpus weight
- Terrorist
Terrorist
28,879 corpus weight
- Thalia
Thalia
28,877 corpus weight
- thesaurus
thesaurus
28,876 corpus weight
- thrash
thrash
28,875 corpus weight
- Thursday
Thursday
28,874 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thesaurus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thesaurus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.zo.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thesaurus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thesaurus is uncommon French at frequency #71,125 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.zo.ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de thésaurus.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for thesaurus in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 thesaurus, spelled T-H-E-S-A-U-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Variante de thésaurus.
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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