tin
\tɛ̃\
The verdict
“tin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,292) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,292
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cale de bois qui supporte la quille d’un navire en construction ou en cale sèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tin · tin · French
tin · rank #17,292 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,292
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timides
Nearest frequency peer: timides (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tin »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- technology
technology
82,712 corpus weight
- things
things
82,711 corpus weight
- timides
timides
82,710 corpus weight
- tin
tin
82,709 corpus weight
- tonneau
tonneau
82,708 corpus weight
- tordu
tordu
82,707 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tin » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tin »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tin is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tɛ̃\. Frequency #17,292 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for tin in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tin, spelled T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Cale de bois qui supporte la quille d’un navire en construction ou en cale sèche.
- 2Support de cette cale, qui peut par exemple prendre la forme d’un bloc de béton, ou de structures métalliques.
- 3Pièce de bois qui supporte ou cale un tonneau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tins en fonte sont d'un meilleur usage. Ils sont également constitués par trois pièces, toutes taillées en coin ; l'ensemble est exhaussé ou abaissé par le glissement de la pièce centrale.
Tin de ber. Ligne de tins.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).