tiers
French, noun/tjɛʁ/
tiers is spelled T-I-E-R-S (5 letters) and appears 51 times per million words in written French, the 1,629th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tiers is a French masculine noun meaning “a third (one of three equal parts)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie d’une unité qui est subdivisée en trois parties égales ; résultat de la division par trois. 1/3”.
What does tiers mean in English?
adjective
- 1
archaicthird
tiers-monde
- 2
third-party
une tierce personne
noun
- 1
masculinea third (one of three equal parts)
- 2
masculinea third-party (an outsider of a group)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie d’une unité qui est subdivisée en trois parties égales ; résultat de la division par trois. 1/3. 2. Troisième personne. 3. Personne étrangère à une affaire. 4. Troisième situation.
adjective: 1. Troisième. 2. Qui relève de l’état de tiers, de tierce partie, donc extérieur aux parties précédemment impliquées.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tiers
- tierce feminine
- tierces feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tiers?
- /tjɛʁ/
- \tjɛʁ\
- [œ̃ tjɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tiers
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tiers in French?
tiers appears 51 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).