tilsit
\til.sit\
The verdict
“tilsit” is uncommon French (frequency #91,230 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,230
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fromage à base de lait de vache produit en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tilsit · tilsit · French
tilsit · rank #91,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,230
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tiene
Nearest frequency peer: tiene (-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 « tilsit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ternissent
ternissent
8,774 corpus weight
- tiene
tiene
8,772 corpus weight
- tilsit
tilsit
8,771 corpus weight
- Timbaland
Timbaland
8,770 corpus weight
- tirerais
tirerais
8,768 corpus weight
- tombiez
tombiez
8,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tilsit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilsit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \til.sit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tilsit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tilsit is uncommon French at frequency #91,230 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \til.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fromage à base de lait de vache produit en Suisse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tilsit in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tilsit, spelled T-I-L-S-I-T.
Definition
- 1Fromage à base de lait de vache produit en Suisse.
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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