tini
\ti.nˈi\
The verdict
“tini” is uncommon French (frequency #94,339 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,339
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de tinir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tini · tini · French
tini · rank #94,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,339
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thérouanne
Nearest frequency peer: Thérouanne (-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 « tini »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- terrent
terrent
5,668 corpus weight
- thrill
thrill
5,665 corpus weight
- Thérouanne
Thérouanne
5,663 corpus weight
- tini
tini
5,662 corpus weight
- tois
tois
5,661 corpus weight
- trampolines
trampolines
5,657 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tini » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tini |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ti.nˈi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tini » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tini is uncommon French at frequency #94,339 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ti.nˈi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tini, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tini, spelled T-I-N-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de tinir.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de tinir.
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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