tilbury
\til.by.ʁi\
The verdict
“tilbury” is uncommon French (frequency #92,267 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,267
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de cabriolet très léger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tilbury · tilbury · French
tilbury · rank #92,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,267
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Timisoara
Nearest frequency peer: Timisoara (+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 « tilbury »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thumb
thumb
7,738 corpus weight
- thébaïde
thébaïde
7,737 corpus weight
- thêta
thêta
7,736 corpus weight
- tilbury
tilbury
7,734 corpus weight
- Timisoara
Timisoara
7,733 corpus weight
- timorée
timorée
7,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tilbury » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilbury |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \til.by.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tilbury » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tilbury is uncommon French at frequency #92,267 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \til.by.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tilbury, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tilbury, spelled T-I-L-B-U-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Sorte de cabriolet très léger.
- 2Ancien type de charrue hippomobile, puis loco-tractée sur laquelle on pouvait s’asseoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tilbury appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès le lendemain, Lucien, en tilbury, et suivi de deux laquais à cheval, alla pour mettre des cartes chez les dames auxquelles il avait eu l’honneur d’être présenté la veille.
Quatrièmement, pour une course pareille un cabriolet serait trop lourd et fatiguerait le cheval. Il faudrait que monsieur le maire consentît à voyager dans un petit tilbury que j'ai.
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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