tilapia
\ti.la.pja\
The verdict
“tilapia” is uncommon French (frequency #97,485 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,485
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom commun d’un poisson d’eau douce très répandu en aquiculture, originaire d’Afrique et du Proche et Moyen-Orient. Il est également élevé massivement en Chine et est très bon marché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tilapia · tilapia · French
tilapia · rank #97,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,485
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH théosophie
Nearest frequency peer: théosophie (-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 « tilapia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Théobald
Théobald
2,518 corpus weight
- théosophie
théosophie
2,517 corpus weight
- tilapia
tilapia
2,516 corpus weight
- Tisseron
Tisseron
2,515 corpus weight
- tob
tob
2,514 corpus weight
- tocs
tocs
2,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tilapia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilapia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.la.pja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tilapia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tilapia is uncommon French at frequency #97,485 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.la.pja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom commun d’un poisson d’eau douce très répandu en aquiculture, originaire d’Afrique et du Proche et Moyen-Orient. Il est également élevé massivement en Chine et est très bon marché.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tilapia in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is tilapia, spelled T-I-L-A-P-I-A.
Definition
- 1Nom commun d’un poisson d’eau douce très répandu en aquiculture, originaire d’Afrique et du Proche et Moyen-Orient. Il est également élevé massivement en Chine et est très bon marché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tilapia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La production mondiale de tilapia et d’autres cyclidés à atteint 1 265 800 tonnes en 2000.
Dans le monde, des éleveurs expérimentent des poissons transgéniques à croissance rapide en vue de fournir des protéines animales à leur population. C'est le cas en Chine avec la carpe, en Russie avec la loche, à Cuba, au Vietnam et au Brésil avec le tilapia.
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); 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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