thesis
\ˈθiː.sɪs\
The verdict
“thesis” is uncommon French (frequency #84,372 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,372
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Thèse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thesis · thesis · French
thesis · rank #84,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,372
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thames
Nearest frequency peer: Thames (-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 « thesis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teuton
teuton
15,632 corpus weight
- thalassothé…
thalassothérapie
15,631 corpus weight
- Thames
Thames
15,630 corpus weight
- thesis
thesis
15,629 corpus weight
- Thévenin
Thévenin
15,627 corpus weight
- Tiana
Tiana
15,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thesis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thesis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈθiː.sɪs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thesis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thesis is uncommon French at frequency #84,372 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈθiː.sɪs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Thèse.".
thesis has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 thesis, spelled T-H-E-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Thèse.
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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