Timsit
\tim.sit\
The verdict
“Timsit” is uncommon French (frequency #80,712 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,712
- 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-timsit · Timsit · French
Timsit · rank #80,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,712
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timone
Nearest frequency peer: timone (-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 « Timsit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- timone
timone
19,290 corpus weight
- Timsit
Timsit
19,289 corpus weight
- tinter
tinter
19,288 corpus weight
- tissue
tissue
19,287 corpus weight
- titillé
titillé
19,286 corpus weight
- toad
toad
19,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Timsit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Timsit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tim.sit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Timsit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Timsit is uncommon French at frequency #80,712 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tim.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Timsit, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Timsit, spelled T-I-M-S-I-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Timsit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela libère du plastique dans les aliments, en quantité infime, certes, mais ce n’est pas bon, affirme Alice Timsit, élue du groupe écologiste dans le 18ᵉ arrondissement.
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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