tipis
\ti.pi\
The verdict
“tipis” is uncommon French (frequency #89,251 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,251
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tipi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tipis · tipis · French
tipis · rank #89,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,251
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toga
Nearest frequency peer: toga (+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 « tipis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thomiste
thomiste
10,755 corpus weight
- thuya
thuya
10,753 corpus weight
- tipis
tipis
10,750 corpus weight
- toga
toga
10,749 corpus weight
- tonnellerie
tonnellerie
10,747 corpus weight
- torpedo
torpedo
10,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tipis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tipis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.pi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tipis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tipis is uncommon French at frequency #89,251 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tipi.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tipis, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tipis, spelled T-I-P-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tipi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tipis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avez-vous une âme de pionnier ? Si oui, vous disposez de chariots bâchés tels que vous en avez vu dans les westerns, lesquels nous montrent également des tipis.
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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