champ de tir
\ʃɑ̃ də tiʁ\
The verdict
“champ de tir” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Endroit destiné à l’entraînement de l’usage d’armes à feux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | champ de tir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃ də tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “champ de tir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for champ de tir is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃ də tiʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Endroit destiné à l’entraînement de l’usage d’armes à feux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for champ de tir in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is champ de tir, spelled C-H-A-M-P- -D-E- -T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Endroit destiné à l’entraînement de l’usage d’armes à feux.
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Using “champ de tir”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-M-P- -D-E- -T-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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