Tikrit
\ti.kʁit\
The verdict
“Tikrit” is uncommon French (frequency #67,927 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,927
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Irak, située dans la province de Salah ad-Din dont elle est la capitale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tikrit · Tikrit · French
Tikrit · rank #67,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,927
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH ties
Nearest frequency peer: ties (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Tikrit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thugs
thugs
32,077 corpus weight
- Thémis
Thémis
32,076 corpus weight
- ties
ties
32,075 corpus weight
- Tikrit
Tikrit
32,074 corpus weight
- timber
timber
32,073 corpus weight
- torontois
torontois
32,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tikrit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tikrit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ti.kʁit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tikrit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tikrit is uncommon French at frequency #67,927 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ti.kʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Irak, située dans la province de Salah ad-Din dont elle est la capitale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tikrit in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Tikrit, spelled T-I-K-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Irak, située dans la province de Salah ad-Din dont elle est la capitale.
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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