tigre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,909
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tigre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de mammifère carnassier, le plus grand de la famille des félidés, au pelage généralement fauve, rayé de bandes noires transversales. La femelle est la tigresse, le petit le tigreau. Le tigre... Pronounced \tiɡʁ\. It ranks #7,909 in French word frequency. Often confused with tir and tre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tigre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tiɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tigre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tiɡʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,909 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tigre, with forms such as "itgre", "tgire", and "tiggre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tir", "tre", "tiré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tigre, spelled T-I-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de mammifère carnassier, le plus grand de la famille des félidés, au pelage généralement fauve, rayé de bandes noires transversales. La femelle est la tigresse, le petit le tigreau. Le tigre râle, rauque ou feule.
- 2Personne cruelle, dangereuse.
- 3Espèces d’insectes hémiptères, mouchetés, qui s’attaquent aux feuilles des arbres, et principalement des poiriers en espaliers. Celui du poirier est aussi appelé punaise tigre ou tigre du poirier. Celui du platane est le tigre du platane.
- 4Danseuse du corps de ballet, de rang supérieur au rat.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itgre,tgire,tiggre,tigrre,tirge,ttigre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tigre"
Frequency rank: #7,909 in French
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