tiquer
\ti.ke\
The verdict
“tiquer” is uncommon French (frequency #60,432 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,432
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir un tic. Se dit proprement des chevaux qui ont l’habitude de mordre leur mangeoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tiquer · tiquer · French
tiquer · rank #60,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,432
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tight
Nearest frequency peer: tight (-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 « tiquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- testons
testons
39,572 corpus weight
- thau
thau
39,571 corpus weight
- tight
tight
39,570 corpus weight
- tiquer
tiquer
39,569 corpus weight
- tireuse
tireuse
39,568 corpus weight
- tomographie
tomographie
39,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tiquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ti.ke\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tiquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tiquer is uncommon French at frequency #60,432 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ti.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tiquer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tiquer, spelled T-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Avoir un tic. Se dit proprement des chevaux qui ont l’habitude de mordre leur mangeoire.
- 2Avoir une réaction physique involontaire à un événement désapprouvé, comme une gestuelle, une mimique.
- 3Être arrêté par une difficulté, être heurté par une proposition, par une requête à laquelle on répugne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tiquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce cheval tique.
Elle ouvrit le message et le parcourut. Il s’agissait d’un banal mail de remerciement, mais qui contenait pourtant quelques formulations qui la firent tiquer.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).