tierra
\ˈtje.ra\
The verdict
“tierra” is uncommon French (frequency #61,946 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,946
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tierra · tierra · French
tierra · rank #61,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,946
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tick
Nearest frequency peer: tick (-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 « tierra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- tonnelier
tonnelier
38,053 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tierra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tierra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtje.ra\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tierra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tierra is uncommon French at frequency #61,946 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtje.ra\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tierra in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tierra, spelled T-I-E-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tierra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Cuando éramos jóvenes, la tierra se labraba a mano, con una laya. Nadie hablaba de tractores entonces.
Esta vez llevaban un catalejo (...) «La ciencia ha eliminado las distancias», pregonaba Melquíades. «Dentro de poco, el hombre podrá ver lo que ocurre en cualquier lugar de la tierra, sin moverse de su casa».
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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