thèse
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,109
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
thèse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Position intellectuelle, point de vue, avis. Pronounced \tɛz\. It ranks #3,109 in French word frequency. Often confused with tsé and très.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for thèse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛz\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,109 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for thèse, with forms such as "htèse", "these", and "thhèse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tsé", "très", "tués", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is thèse, spelled T-H-È-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Position intellectuelle, point de vue, avis.
- 2Toute proposition, soit de philosophie, soit de lettres, soit de théologie, soit de droit, soit de médecine, qu’on soutenait publiquement dans les écoles, dans les universités.
- 3Ensemble de propositions, point de doctrine largement développé par écrit ou étude détaillée et systématique que l’on présente à un jury et dont on soutient les conclusions, pour obtenir certains grades universitaires.
- 4Ensemble de propositions, point de doctrine largement développé par écrit ou étude détaillée et systématique que l’on présente à un jury et dont on soutient les conclusions, pour obtenir certains grades universitaires.
- 5Ensemble de propositions, point de doctrine largement développé par écrit ou étude détaillée et systématique que l’on présente à un jury et dont on soutient les conclusions, pour obtenir certains grades universitaires.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: htèse,these,thhèse,thsèe,thèes,thèsse,tthèse,tèhse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for thèse
Misspelling Variants of "thèse"
Frequency rank: #3,109 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our French index: