tintouin
\tɛ̃.twɛ̃\
The verdict
“tintouin” is uncommon French (frequency #93,322 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,322
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourdonnement, bruit dans les oreilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tintouin · tintouin · French
tintouin · rank #93,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,322
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tipo
Nearest frequency peer: tipo (+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 « tintouin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thys
Thys
6,683 corpus weight
- tibial
tibial
6,681 corpus weight
- tintouin
tintouin
6,679 corpus weight
- tipo
tipo
6,678 corpus weight
- tiraille
tiraille
6,676 corpus weight
- tissulaires
tissulaires
6,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tintouin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tintouin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ̃.twɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tintouin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tintouin is uncommon French at frequency #93,322 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ̃.twɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tintouin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 tintouin, spelled T-I-N-T-O-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Bourdonnement, bruit dans les oreilles.
- 2Inquiétude qu’on a du succès de quelque chose.
- 3Embarras que cause une affaire ou une personne.
- 4Bruit, désordre, chahut …
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tintouin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avoir un tintouin continuel dans les oreilles.
Bigre, j’en ai eu, du tintouin, avec la moto ! se dit Bert en songeant aux coups de coussin éventré et à sa lutte impuissante contre les flammes qui renaissaient sans cesse.
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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