tic-tac-toe
\tik.tak.to\
The verdict
“tic-tac-toe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu du morpion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tic-tac-toe · tic-tac-toe · French
tic-tac-toe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tic-tac-toe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tik.tak.to\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tic-tac-toe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tik.tak.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tic-tac-toe has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tic-tac-toe, spelled T-I-C---T-A-C---T-O-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu du morpion.
- 2Succession de trois points lors d’un match de hockey.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tic-tac-toe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entretemps, Zachary Bolduc avait complété un superbe tic-tac-toe amorcé par le capitaine Théo Rochette – auteur de trois passes hier – et de Pier-Olivier Roy.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.