tibial

\ti.bjal\

/\ti.bjal\/ adj

The verdict

“tibial” is uncommon French (frequency #93,320 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,320
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient, qui a rapport au tibia.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tibial · tibial · French

tibial · rank #93,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,320
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Thys

Nearest frequency peer: Thys (-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 « tibial »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tibial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tibial
PropertyValue
Headwordtibial
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ti.bjal\
Letters6
Frequency rank#93,320
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tibial » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tibialtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Thys » (#93,318), « tintouin » (#93,322), « tipo » (#93,323). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tibial » est au #93,320. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tibial is uncommon French at frequency #93,320 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ti.bjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient, qui a rapport au tibia.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for tibial in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tibial, spelled T-I-B-I-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui appartient, qui a rapport au tibia.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tibial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le nerf péronier, moins considérable que le nerf tibial, se porte de haut en bas, & de derrière en devant, en donnant aux muscles qui recouvrent le péroné.
  2. Le coude-pied est le siège d'une grand nombre de variétés musculaires et vasculaires qui , presque toutes , ont été notées à l'occasion de la jambe : c'est dans ce point, par exemple, que se rencontrent souvent ces dispositions anormales qui font communiquer largement ensemble les artères tibiales et péronière.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tibial"?
"tibial" is spelled T-I-B-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.bjal\.
What does "tibial" mean?
As an adjective, "tibial" means: Qui appartient, qui a rapport au tibia.
How do you pronounce "tibial"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tibial" is \ti.bjal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tibial" come from?
"tibial" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tibial", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list