tice
\ˈtiʃɛ\
The verdict
“tice” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,913
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En haut de, au sommet de (sans mouvement).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tice · tice · French
tice · rank #45,913 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,913
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thalys
Nearest frequency peer: Thalys (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- teck
teck
54,091 corpus weight
- tectoniques
tectoniques
54,090 corpus weight
- Thalys
Thalys
54,089 corpus weight
- tice
tice
54,088 corpus weight
- tigresse
tigresse
54,087 corpus weight
- timon
timon
54,086 corpus weight
What this shows « tice » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \ˈtiʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tice (IPA \ˈtiʃɛ\), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #45,913 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "En haut de, au sommet de (sans mouvement).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tice, with forms such as "itce", "tcie", and "ticce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tué", "tir", "tim", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tice, spelled T-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1En haut de, au sommet de (sans mouvement).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tice brocaxo, lizuxo ta vefara tigir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itce
- tcie
- ticce
- tiec
- ttice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tice - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).