tiens
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,126
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tiens is anFrenchintj. It means: Marque l’étonnement, la surprise Pronounced \tjɛ̃\. It ranks #1,126 in French word frequency. Often confused with tin and TNS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | \tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tiens is 5 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tjɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,126 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tiens, with forms such as "itens", "teins", and "tienns". 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, "tin", "TNS", "très", 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 tiens, spelled T-I-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marque l’étonnement, la surprise
- 2Marque un sentiment de doute, ou de suspicion, parfois mêlé d’étonnement ou de surprise (voir sens 1).
- 3Indique qu’un coup physique est porté, que quelqu’un donne un coup, ou commet un acte violent.
- 4Indique qu’un coup physique est porté, que quelqu’un donne un coup, ou commet un acte violent.
- 5A une simple fonction phatique. Se rapproche dans ce cas de l'expression écoute servant à marquer de l’importance, du nouveau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itens,teins,tienns,tienss,tiesn,tines,ttiens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tiens
Misspelling Variants of "tiens"
Frequency rank: #1,126 in French
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