tidal
\ti.dal\
The verdict
“tidal” is uncommon French (frequency #77,090 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,090
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est relatif à la marée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tidal · tidal · French
tidal · rank #77,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,090
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thus
Nearest frequency peer: thus (-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 « tidal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thaumaturge
thaumaturge
22,915 corpus weight
- thus
thus
22,913 corpus weight
- tidal
tidal
22,911 corpus weight
- Titicaca
Titicaca
22,909 corpus weight
- tondus
tondus
22,908 corpus weight
- tournoyant
tournoyant
22,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tidal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tidal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ti.dal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tidal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tidal is uncommon French at frequency #77,090 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ti.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est relatif à la marée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tidal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tidal, spelled T-I-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est relatif à la marée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tidal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lors de phase régressive, ce remaniement est au contraire d’origine essentiellement tidale et plus de 1000 m de sédiments se déposent grâce à la forte subsidence de ce bassin d’avant-pays. Ces sédiments tidaux sont principalement représentés par des mégarides, des vagues de sables et d’épaisses passées à alternances gréso-silteuses dont le milieu de dépôt…
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); 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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