tille
\tij\
The verdict
“tille” is uncommon French (frequency #64,830 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,830
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite peau qui est entre l’écorce et le bois du tilleul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tille · tille · French
tille · rank #64,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,830
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tinée
Nearest frequency peer: Tinée (+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 « tille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- théocratique
théocratique
35,174 corpus weight
- Tiberi
Tiberi
35,173 corpus weight
- tille
tille
35,171 corpus weight
- Tinée
Tinée
35,170 corpus weight
- titanium
titanium
35,169 corpus weight
- Titouan
Titouan
35,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tij\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tille is uncommon French at frequency #64,830 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
tille doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tille, spelled T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petite peau qui est entre l’écorce et le bois du tilleul.
- 2Écorce du brin de chanvre ou de lin, qu’on appelle aussi teille.
- 3Instrument qui sert à la fois de hache et de marteau, utilisé par les tonneliers et les couvreurs.
- 4Petit compartiment, une logette qui se trouve à l’avant ou à l’arrière d’une barque et qui sert à ranger des vêtements, des provisions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
SEL, m. On le met souvent en pain appelé aussi un salignon. On met douze pains de sels, ou salignons pour former une bénate. Celui qui fait les bénates d’osier ou de tille de tilleul est un bénatier.
Questions chaussures, Choukhov avait vu de tout en huit ans de camps, y compris des hivers sans valienki et même sans soulier : juste des savates de tille ou ces brodequins en caoutchouc qu’on appelait des T T Z à cause qu’ils vous laissaient par terre la trace d’un pneu.
Synonyms
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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