tiki
\ti.ki\
The verdict
“tiki” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,698
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentation humaine, sculptée de façon stylisée et assez grossière, que l’on trouve sous forme de statue ou de pendentif, souvent en jade ou en os, en Océanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tiki · tiki · French
tiki · rank #43,698 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,698
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thouars
Nearest frequency peer: Thouars (-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 « tiki »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- THC
THC
56,307 corpus weight
- Therrien
Therrien
56,306 corpus weight
- thorn
thorn
56,305 corpus weight
- Thouars
Thouars
56,304 corpus weight
- tiki
tiki
56,303 corpus weight
- tirerait
tirerait
56,301 corpus weight
What this shows « tiki » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tiki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ki\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tiki »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tiki (IPA \ti.ki\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,698 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Représentation humaine, sculptée de façon stylisée et assez grossière, que l’on trouve sous forme de statue ou de pendentif, souvent en jade ou en os, en Océanie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tiki, with forms such as "itki", "tiik", and "tikki". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TK", "toi", "tir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 tiki, spelled T-I-K-I.
Definition
- 1Représentation humaine, sculptée de façon stylisée et assez grossière, que l’on trouve sous forme de statue ou de pendentif, souvent en jade ou en os, en Océanie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tiki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré la pénombre, Morel reconnaît instantanément les lieux, le poteau qui soutient le faîte du toit de tôle, la tête de tiki sculptée à hauteur d’homme, le point de vue, le seul qui lui soit familier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itki
- tiik
- tikki
- tkii
- ttiki
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tiki - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).