Thésée
\te.ze\
The verdict
“Thésée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,072
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fils d’Égée, époux de Phèdre qui affronta le Minotaure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thesee · Thésée · French
Thésée · rank #39,072 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,072
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thom
Nearest frequency peer: Thom (-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 « Thésée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Theorie
Theorie
60,932 corpus weight
- thermal
thermal
60,931 corpus weight
- Thom
Thom
60,930 corpus weight
- Thésée
Thésée
60,929 corpus weight
- tourment
tourment
60,928 corpus weight
- travée
travée
60,927 corpus weight
What this shows « Thésée » 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 | Thésée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \te.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Thésée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Thésée (IPA \te.ze\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,072 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fils d’Égée, époux de Phèdre qui affronta le Minotaure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Thésée, with forms such as "htésée", "thesee", and "thhésée". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "three", "those", "thèses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Thésée, spelled T-H-É-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Fils d’Égée, époux de Phèdre qui affronta le Minotaure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thésée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
THESEES ou THESEENES, s. f. pl. (Hist. anc.) fêtes que les Athéniens célebroient tous les ans le 8 d’Octobre en l’honneur de Thésée, & en mémoire de ce qu’à pareil jour il étoit revenu de l’île de Crete après avoir tué le Minotaure. Ce héros bienfaiteur & législateur de sa patrie qu’il avoit délivrée du tribut infame qu’elle payoit tous les ans à Minos d’…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htésée
- thesee
- thhésée
- thséée
- théseé
- théssée
- théése
- tthésée
- téhsée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Thésée - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).