thêta
\tɛ.ta\
The verdict
“thêta” is uncommon French (frequency #92,265 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,265
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Θ, θ/ϑ huitième lettre et cinquième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-theta · thêta · French
thêta · rank #92,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,265
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thébaïde
Nearest frequency peer: thébaïde (-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 « thêta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thousands
thousands
7,739 corpus weight
- thumb
thumb
7,738 corpus weight
- thébaïde
thébaïde
7,737 corpus weight
- thêta
thêta
7,736 corpus weight
- tilbury
tilbury
7,734 corpus weight
- Timisoara
Timisoara
7,733 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thêta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thêta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thêta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thêta is uncommon French at frequency #92,265 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Θ, θ/ϑ huitième lettre et cinquième consonne de l’alphabet grec.".
thêta doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is thêta, spelled T-H-Ê-T-A.
Definition
- 1Θ, θ/ϑ huitième lettre et cinquième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
This word in other languages
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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