tice

/\ˈtiʃɛ\/ prep

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,913

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

tice is aFrenchprep. It means: En haut de, au sommet de (sans mouvement). Pronounced \ˈtiʃɛ\. Often confused with tué and tir.

Key facts for tice
PropertyValue
Headwordtice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\ˈtiʃɛ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#45,913
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tice in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tice is 4 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈtiʃɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,913 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En haut de, au sommet de (sans mouvement).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tice, with forms such as "itce", "tcie", and "ticce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tice, spelled T-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En haut de, au sommet de (sans mouvement).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: itce,tcie,ticce,tiec,ttice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tice

Misspelling Variants of "tice"

itce4tcie4ticce5tiec4ttice5
Misspelling Variants of "tice"

Frequency rank: #45,913 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tice"?
"tice" is spelled T-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈtiʃɛ\.
What does "tice" mean?
As a prep, "tice" means: En haut de, au sommet de (sans mouvement).
What words are commonly confused with "tice"?
"tice" is commonly confused with "tué", "tir", "tim". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tice" is \ˈtiʃɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tice" come from?
"tice" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.