Thirion
\ti.ʁjɔ̃\
The verdict
“Thirion” is uncommon French (frequency #77,991 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,991
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-thirion · Thirion · French
Thirion · rank #77,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,991
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thermodynamiq…
Nearest frequency peer: thermodynamiques (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Thirion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thalie
Thalie
22,015 corpus weight
- thermaux
thermaux
22,013 corpus weight
- thermodynam…
thermodynamiques
22,012 corpus weight
- Thirion
Thirion
22,010 corpus weight
- Thémistocle
Thémistocle
22,008 corpus weight
- tirerons
tirerons
22,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Thirion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thirion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Thirion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Thirion is uncommon French at frequency #77,991 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ti.ʁjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Thirion, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Thirion, spelled T-H-I-R-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thirion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alain Thirion.
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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