tibial
\ti.bjal\
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
- thermiqueme…
thermiquement
6,685 corpus weight
- Thys
Thys
6,683 corpus weight
- tibial
tibial
6,681 corpus weight
- tintouin
tintouin
6,679 corpus weight
- tipo
tipo
6,678 corpus weight
- tiraille
tiraille
6,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tibial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tibial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ti.bjal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tibial » en français
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
- 1Qui appartient, qui a rapport au tibia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tibial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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