tie
\ti\
The verdict
“tie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,051) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,051
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument des ouvriers qui font des ouvrages de raclerie dans les forêts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tie · tie · French
tie · rank #23,051 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,051
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thunes
Nearest frequency peer: thunes (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tie »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tex
tex
76,953 corpus weight
- theme
theme
76,952 corpus weight
- thunes
thunes
76,951 corpus weight
- tie
tie
76,950 corpus weight
- torrents
torrents
76,949 corpus weight
- transpositi…
transposition
76,948 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | tie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tie »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tie is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ti\. Frequency #23,051 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Instrument des ouvriers qui font des ouvrages de raclerie dans les forêts.".
tie has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 tie, spelled T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument des ouvriers qui font des ouvrages de raclerie dans les forêts.
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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