tx
The verdict
“tx” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,111) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,111
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du tex, unité de mesure du titrage (masse linéique) des fils et filés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tx · tx · French
tx · rank #37,111 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,111
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tumulus
Nearest frequency peer: tumulus (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tx”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tripoter
tripoter
62,894 corpus weight
- trophy
trophy
62,893 corpus weight
- tumulus
tumulus
62,892 corpus weight
- tx
tx
62,890 corpus weight
- télévisuel
télévisuel
62,888 corpus weight
- uniformisat…
uniformisation
62,887 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tx” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | tx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #37,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “tx” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tx is neighbouring look-alikes ("ty", "Tyr", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #37,111 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du tex, unité de mesure du titrage (masse linéique) des fils et filés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tx in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ty", "Tyr", "T", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tx, spelled T-X.
Definition
- 1Symbole du tex, unité de mesure du titrage (masse linéique) des fils et filés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 tx = 10⁻⁶ kg/m
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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- "tx" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ty". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #37,111 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "T" letter cohort. T–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.