tinta
\tɛ̃.ta\
The verdict
“tinta” is uncommon French (frequency #85,321 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,321
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du passé simple de tinter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tinta · tinta · French
tinta · rank #85,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,321
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Timur
Nearest frequency peer: Timur (-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 « tinta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tik
tik
14,683 corpus weight
- Timur
Timur
14,681 corpus weight
- tinta
tinta
14,680 corpus weight
- TIPP
TIPP
14,679 corpus weight
- tiraillement
tiraillement
14,678 corpus weight
- titles
titles
14,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tinta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tinta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tinta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tinta is uncommon French at frequency #85,321 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɛ̃.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du passé simple de tinter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tinta, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tinta, spelled T-I-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du passé simple de tinter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tinta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il poussa la porte si fort que le fer à cheval suspendu au linteau de chêne tinta faiblement.
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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