tsé
French, contraction/tse/
tsé is spelled T-S-É (3 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 27,734th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tsé is a French contraction meaning “Contracted form of tu sais; you know” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does tsé mean in English?
contraction
- 1
QuebecContracted form of tu sais; you know
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vingt-quatrième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique macédonien, ц.
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 tsé
- t'sais alternative
- tsey alternative
- tsés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tsé?
- /tse/
- \t͡se\
- [tse]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tsé in French?
tsé appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).