tifo
\ti.fo\
The verdict
“tifo” is uncommon French (frequency #73,608 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,608
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animation par des supporters d'une équipe, les « tifosi » ou « aficionados », dans les tribunes d'un stade ou circuit accueillant une rencontre sportive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tifo · tifo · French
tifo · rank #73,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,608
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tibor
Nearest frequency peer: Tibor (-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 « tifo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tention
tention
26,396 corpus weight
- Thiérache
Thiérache
26,395 corpus weight
- Tibor
Tibor
26,394 corpus weight
- tifo
tifo
26,393 corpus weight
- Timmermans
Timmermans
26,392 corpus weight
- TLD
TLD
26,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tifo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tifo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.fo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tifo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tifo is uncommon French at frequency #73,608 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.fo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animation par des supporters d'une équipe, les « tifosi » ou « aficionados », dans les tribunes d'un stade ou circuit accueillant une rencontre sportive.".
tifo has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tifo, spelled T-I-F-O.
Definition
- 1Animation par des supporters d'une équipe, les « tifosi » ou « aficionados », dans les tribunes d'un stade ou circuit accueillant une rencontre sportive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tifo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le Parc des Princes ne ressemble plus à rien, dit le premier. Plus d’encouragements, plus de chaleur, plus de tifos, de drapeaux, de fumis, de banderoles. A la place, des sifflets malvenus et des chants lamentables. Bref ce stade est mort ! »
Ciel mauve comme avant typhon, cœur noir comme un antifa, Blase de l'équipe : en haut comme un tifo, loin d'la loge et des p'tits fours
This word in other languages
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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