tigre
\tiɡʁ\
The verdict
“tigre” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,909 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,909
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “tigre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tigre is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tigre, with forms such as "itgre", "tgire", and "tiggre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tir", "tre", "tiré", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tigre, spelled T-I-G-R-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itgre,tgire,tiggre,tigrre,tirge,ttigre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tigre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “tigre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-I-G-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tiɡʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tir” - see the side-by-side comparison. tigre vs tir
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.