tique
\tik\
The verdict
“tique” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,896. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,896
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arachnide acarien ectoparasite, qui s’attache à la peau des chiens, des bœufs, des chats, des humains, des oiseaux ou des reptiles, se nourrissant de leur sang grâce à un rostre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tique · tique · French
tique · rank #26,896 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,896
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thyroïde
Nearest frequency peer: thyroïde (-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 « tique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tendon
tendon
73,109 corpus weight
- thermodynam…
thermodynamique
73,107 corpus weight
- thyroïde
thyroïde
73,106 corpus weight
- tique
tique
73,105 corpus weight
- tirera
tirera
73,104 corpus weight
- tizi
tizi
73,103 corpus weight
What this shows « tique » 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 | tique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tique (IPA \tik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,896 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arachnide acarien ectoparasite, qui s’attache à la peau des chiens, des bœufs, des chats, des humains, des oiseaux ou des reptiles, se nourrissant de leur sang grâce à un rostre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tique, with forms such as "itque", "tiqeu", and "tiqque". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tué", "tiré", "true", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tique, spelled T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Arachnide acarien ectoparasite, qui s’attache à la peau des chiens, des bœufs, des chats, des humains, des oiseaux ou des reptiles, se nourrissant de leur sang grâce à un rostre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tiques adultes ont huit pattes. Tant qu’elles n’ont pas sucé le sang d’un animal pour s’en nourrir, elles sont petites et de couleur sombre. Lorsqu’elles se sont remplies de sang, elles sont gonflées et deviennent faciles à voir, elles mesurent alors jusqu’à 1 cm de large. Chaque tique peut sucer environ 2 ml de sang par cycle biologique. Les tiques p…
La tique tombe après s’être gorgée de sang.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itque
- tiqeu
- tiqque
- tiuqe
- tqiue
- ttique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tique - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).