tick
\tɪk\
The verdict
“tick” is uncommon French (frequency #61,945 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,945
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de ticken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tick · tick · French
tick · rank #61,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,945
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH théorisation
Nearest frequency peer: théorisation (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tick »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ternaire
ternaire
38,059 corpus weight
- teutons
teutons
38,058 corpus weight
- théorisation
théorisation
38,057 corpus weight
- tick
tick
38,056 corpus weight
- tierra
tierra
38,055 corpus weight
- tintamarre
tintamarre
38,054 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tick » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɪk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tick » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tick is uncommon French at frequency #61,945 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de ticken.".
tick doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 tick, spelled T-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de ticken.
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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