tintin
\tɛ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“tintin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,282. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,282
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rien du tout, Tu peux/Vous pouvez toujours courir. » ou « N’y compte/N’y comptez pas. »
Corpus desk
Index FR-tintin · tintin · French
tintin · rank #13,282 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,282
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torres
Nearest frequency peer: torres (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tintin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- they
they
86,722 corpus weight
- think
think
86,721 corpus weight
- tintin
tintin
86,719 corpus weight
- torres
torres
86,718 corpus weight
- Toyota
Toyota
86,717 corpus weight
- tranchée
tranchée
86,716 corpus weight
What this shows « tintin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tintin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \tɛ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tintin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tintin (IPA \tɛ̃.tɛ̃\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #13,282 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rien du tout, Tu peux/Vous pouvez toujours courir. » ou « N’y compte/N’y comptez pas. »".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tintin, with forms such as "itntin", "tinitn", and "tinntin". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "titi", "Titan", "tinto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tintin, spelled T-I-N-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Rien du tout, Tu peux/Vous pouvez toujours courir. » ou « N’y compte/N’y comptez pas. »
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tintin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si tu crois que je vais te prêter ma console vidéo, alors tintin.
11 octobre 42 – Je vous estime davantage d’avoir ouvert les mêmes portes que moi, mais pour le désir, c’est du pareil au même : tintin !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itntin
- tinitn
- tinntin
- tintinn
- tintni
- tinttin
- titnin
- tnitin
- ttintin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tintin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tintin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).