ties
\ˈti.es\
The verdict
“ties” is uncommon French (frequency #67,926 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,926
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De celle-là, de celui-là, à celui-là.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ties · ties · French
ties · rank #67,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,926
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thémis
Nearest frequency peer: Thémis (-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 « ties »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thorin
Thorin
32,078 corpus weight
- thugs
thugs
32,077 corpus weight
- Thémis
Thémis
32,076 corpus weight
- ties
ties
32,075 corpus weight
- Tikrit
Tikrit
32,074 corpus weight
- timber
timber
32,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ties » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ties |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈti.es\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ties » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ties is uncommon French at frequency #67,926 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈti.es\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De celle-là, de celui-là, à celui-là.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ties, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 ties, spelled T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1De celle-là, de celui-là, à celui-là.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ties appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aŭdinte la nomon de la parko, oni unue pensas pri la centra kanalo, kiu trapasas ĝin kaj pri la ebloj promenadi laŭ ties bordo ambaŭflanke.
En ties kvieta fajro kuŝis mira sorĉo, ĉar ĝi pruntis sian brilon el la poezio de la animo.
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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