Tignes

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The verdict

“Tignes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,184
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tignes · Tignes · French

Tignes · rank #43,184 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,184
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH thérapeutes

Nearest frequency peer: thérapeutes (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tignes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Tignes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Tignes vs times
50% similar
Tignes vs tirés
33% similar
Tignes vs tigre
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Tignes
PropertyValue
HeadwordTignes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#43,184
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tignes »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Tignesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « thérapeutes » (#43,183), « tiret » (#43,185), « theft » (#43,182). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « Tignes » est au #43,184. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around Tignes, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,184 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tignes, with forms such as "itgnes", "tgines", and "tigens". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "times", "tirés", "tigre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Tignes, spelled T-I-G-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Tignes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mes potes étaient ultra-forts, je passais tous mes étés avec eux aux snowparks de Tignes et des 2 Alpes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itgnes
  • tgines
  • tigens
  • tiggnes
  • tigness
  • tignnes
  • tignse
  • tinges
  • ttignes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tignes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

itgnes2tgines2tigens2tiggnes1tigness1tignnes1tignse2tinges2
Edit distance from "Tignes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Tignes"?
"Tignes" is spelled T-I-G-N-E-S.
What does "Tignes" mean?
As a proper noun, "Tignes" means: Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.
What words are commonly confused with "Tignes"?
"Tignes" is commonly confused with "times", "tirés", "tigre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Tignes" come from?
"Tignes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tignes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tounes#43,188tracks#43,190usurpé#43,201Venice#43,204

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

usuelles9 variantssmooth9 variantsSillery9 variantssigles9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list