tigron
\ti.ɡʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“tigron” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal hybride issu du croisement d’une lionne et d’un tigre (qui ne se fait qu’en captivité), dont le mâle est stérile. Aussi hybride d'un lion et d'une tigresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tigron · tigron · French
tigron · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tigron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ɡʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tigron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tigron is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.ɡʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal hybride issu du croisement d’une lionne et d’un tigre (qui ne se fait qu’en captivité), dont le mâle est stérile. Aussi hybride d'un lion et d'une tigresse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tigron, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tigron, spelled T-I-G-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Animal hybride issu du croisement d’une lionne et d’un tigre (qui ne se fait qu’en captivité), dont le mâle est stérile. Aussi hybride d'un lion et d'une tigresse.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.