pomme de tire
\pɔm də tiʁ\
The verdict
“pomme de tire” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pomme caramélisée tenue au bout d’un bâtonnet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pomme de tire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔm də tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pomme de tire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pomme de tire is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔm 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: "Pomme caramélisée tenue au bout d’un bâtonnet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pomme de tire, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pomme de tire, spelled P-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -T-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pomme caramélisée tenue au bout d’un bâtonnet.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pomme de tire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -T-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔm də tiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.