thésaurus
French, noun/te.zɔ.ʁys/
thésaurus is spelled T-H-É-S-A-U-R-U-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 70,496th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Thésaurus is a French masculine noun meaning “thesaurus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrage permettant, à partir d’une idée, de trouver des mots qui sont en rapport avec celle-ci”.
What does thésaurus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethesaurus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de thésaurus.
noun: 1. Ouvrage permettant, à partir d’une idée, de trouver des mots qui sont en rapport avec celle-ci. 2. Vocabulaire normalisé sur la base de termes génériques et de termes spécifiques à un domaine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of thésaurus
- thesaurus alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce thésaurus?
- /te.zɔ.ʁys/
- \te.zo.ʁys\
- [t̪e.zo.ʁys]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to thésaurus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is thésaurus in French?
thésaurus appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).