Tillie
The verdict
“Tillie” is uncommon French (frequency #70,275 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,275
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tillie · Tillie · French
Tillie · rank #70,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,275
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tierney
Nearest frequency peer: Tierney (-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 « Tillie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thibodeau
Thibodeau
29,731 corpus weight
- Tierney
Tierney
29,727 corpus weight
- Tillie
Tillie
29,726 corpus weight
- tirerai
tirerai
29,725 corpus weight
- toucherais
toucherais
29,723 corpus weight
- tourmaline
tourmaline
29,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tillie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tillie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tillie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tillie is uncommon French at frequency #70,275 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tillie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Tillie, spelled T-I-L-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tillie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les prestations honnêtes du pointu Stephen Boyer (15 points, 14/27 en attaque), remplacé dans le dernier set par Jean Patry, et de Kevin Tillie (13 points, 13/28), n’ont pas suffi quand les Bleus multipliaient, une fois encore, les erreurs au service (21 en tout).
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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