Tigre
"tigre" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tigre” is uncommon English (frequency #57,128 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,128
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tigre · Tigre · English
Tigre · rank #57,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,128
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Thwaites
Nearest frequency peer: Thwaites (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Tigre”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Thibault
Thibault
42,877 corpus weight
- threshing
threshing
42,876 corpus weight
- Thwaites
Thwaites
42,874 corpus weight
- Tigre
Tigre
42,873 corpus weight
- torchlight
torchlight
42,870 corpus weight
- touristic
touristic
42,869 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tigre” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tigre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tigre” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tigre is uncommon English at frequency #57,128 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tigre in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre). The correct English form is Tigre, spelled T-I-G-R-E.
Definition
- 1A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.
Etymology
From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).