Tianjin
\tjan.tʃin\
The verdict
“Tianjin” is uncommon French (frequency #59,685 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,685
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ville et municipalité autonome du nord-est de la Chine, située sur le golfe de Bohai à 150 km au sud-est de Pékin
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tianjin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tjan.tʃin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tianjin” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tianjin is uncommon French at frequency #59,685 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tjan.tʃin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ville et municipalité autonome du nord-est de la Chine, située sur le golfe de Bohai à 150 km au sud-est de Pékin".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tianjin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Tianjin, spelled T-I-A-N-J-I-N.
Definition
- 1ville et municipalité autonome du nord-est de la Chine, située sur le golfe de Bohai à 150 km au sud-est de Pékin
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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Using “Tianjin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-I-A-N-J-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tjan.tʃin\ (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.