tiare
\tjaʁ\
The verdict
“tiare” is an uncommon French word, ranked #53,026 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,026
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ornement de tête, de forme conique, qui était autrefois en usage chez les Perses, chez les Arméniens, etc., et qui servait aux princes et aux sacrificateurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tjaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tiare” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tiare is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tjaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,026 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tiare in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 tiare, spelled T-I-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ornement de tête, de forme conique, qui était autrefois en usage chez les Perses, chez les Arméniens, etc., et qui servait aux princes et aux sacrificateurs.
- 2Haute coiffure ornée de trois couronnes et surmontée d’un globe portant une croix, que met le pape dans certaines cérémonies.
- 3Dignité papale, papauté.
- 4Meuble représentant la coiffe du même nom dans les armoiries. Certains auteurs précisent le blasonnement par les adjectifs papale ou pontificale. Elle est parfois représentée avec deux fanons. Elle est généralement signe d’un lien entre l’armigère et la papauté (actuel ou passé). À rapprocher de couronne, couronne comtale, couronne de laurier, couronne d’épines, couronne de reine, couronne fleuronnée, couronne murale, couronne navale, couronne royale, cancerlin, crancelin, crantzelin et diadème.
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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 “tiare”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-I-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tjaʁ\ (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.