Tbilissi
\tbi.li.si\
The verdict
“Tbilissi” is uncommon French (frequency #58,978 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,978
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de la Géorgie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tbilissi · Tbilissi · French
Tbilissi · rank #58,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,978
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tantale
Nearest frequency peer: tantale (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Tbilissi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tangent
tangent
41,026 corpus weight
- tannique
tannique
41,025 corpus weight
- tantale
tantale
41,024 corpus weight
- Tbilissi
Tbilissi
41,023 corpus weight
- tchatche
tchatche
41,022 corpus weight
- Tempus
Tempus
41,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tbilissi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tbilissi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tbi.li.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tbilissi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tbilissi is uncommon French at frequency #58,978 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tbi.li.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale de la Géorgie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tbilissi, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Tbilissi, spelled T-B-I-L-I-S-S-I.
Definition
- 1Capitale de la Géorgie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tbilissi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La judoka canadienne Christa Deguchi participait à une première compétition en plus d’un an et la championne du mode des moins de 57 kg a mérité une médaille de bronze lors de la première journée du Grand Chelem de Tbilissi, en Georgie.
De la Campanie à Tbilissi, portrait du phénomène géorgien que Naples n’a pas tardé à rebaptiser Kvaradona.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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