tifosi
\ti.fo.zi\
The verdict
“tifosi” is uncommon French (frequency #76,174 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,174
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au football, supporteur italien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tifosi · tifosi · French
tifosi · rank #76,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teu
Nearest frequency peer: teu (-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 « tifosi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taza
taza
23,832 corpus weight
- terrines
terrines
23,829 corpus weight
- teu
teu
23,828 corpus weight
- tifosi
tifosi
23,827 corpus weight
- tifs
tifs
23,826 corpus weight
- Tirlemont
Tirlemont
23,823 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tifosi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tifosi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.fo.zi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tifosi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tifosi is uncommon French at frequency #76,174 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.fo.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tifosi, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 tifosi, spelled T-I-F-O-S-I.
Definition
- 1Au football, supporteur italien.
- 2En formule 1, supporteur de l’écurie Ferrari.
- 3Dans le sport en général, supporteur d’un sportif italien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tifosi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les moqueries vont-elles poursuivre Ferrari jusque sur ses terres ? C’est la crainte des milliers de tifosi qui vont converger, ce week-end, sur le circuit de Monza, pour le Grand Prix d’Italie.
Nencini, qui le suit, profite des incessantes poussettes des tifosi pour le doubler et passer au sommet avec quinze secondes d’avance.
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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