tien
\tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“tien” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,007. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,007
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui est à toi ou ceux qui sont à toi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tien · tien · French
tien · rank #7,007 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,007
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sérieuses
Nearest frequency peer: sérieuses (-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 « tien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- substances
substances
92,997 corpus weight
- séparé
séparé
92,996 corpus weight
- sérieuses
sérieuses
92,995 corpus weight
- tien
tien
92,994 corpus weight
- tiendra
tiendra
92,993 corpus weight
- travaillait
travaillait
92,991 corpus weight
What this shows « tien » 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 | tien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tien (IPA \tjɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,007 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ce qui est à toi ou ceux qui sont à toi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tien, with forms such as "iten", "tein", and "tienn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TN", "ton", "tué", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 tien, spelled T-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est à toi ou ceux qui sont à toi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un tien ami : Un de tes amis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iten
- tein
- tienn
- tine
- ttien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tien - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).