tinter
\tɛ̃.te\
The verdict
“tinter” is uncommon French (frequency #80,713 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,713
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire sonner lentement une cloche, en sorte que le battant ne frappe que d’un côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tinter · tinter · French
tinter · rank #80,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,713
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Timsit
Nearest frequency peer: Timsit (-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 « tinter »
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 « tinter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tinter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tinter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tinter is uncommon French at frequency #80,713 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɛ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tinter in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tinter, spelled T-I-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire sonner lentement une cloche, en sorte que le battant ne frappe que d’un côté.
- 2Sonner lentement en parlant d'une cloche qu’on frappe d’un seul côté avec le battant.
- 3Rendre un son en étant frappé comme une cloche.
- 4Donner la sensation d’un tintement de cloche.
- 5Rendre un son.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tinter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— A Neufchâtel, on annonce le trépas par quinze coups de cloche pour un homme, […]. À Bully, à Esclavelles et à Bures, on tinte treize coups pour un homme, onze pour une femme, et, dans cette dernière paroisse, sept pour les enfants.
Tinter la grosse cloche, la petite cloche.
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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