tir
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,969
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action, art de tirer, de faire partir une arme de jet ou une arme à feu dans une direction déterminée. Pronounced \tiʁ\. It ranks #2,969 in French word frequency. Often confused with tu and TV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tir is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,969 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tir in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tir, spelled T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action, art de tirer, de faire partir une arme de jet ou une arme à feu dans une direction déterminée.
- 2Mise à feu d’une ou plusieurs charges d’explosif, soit pour abattre la roche, soit pour provoquer, dans le sous-sol, la propagation d’un train d’ondes élastiques.
- 3Manière dont on tire, en parlant des armes à feu.
- 4Lieu où l’on s’exerce à tirer.
- 5Sorte d’attraction foraine où l’on tire à l’arme à feu sur des cibles.
- 6Coup consistant à lancer violemment sa boule contre une boule adverse afin de l’écarter du but.
- 7Action de frapper le ballon ou la balle pour l’expédier en direction du but adverse.
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Frequency rank: #2,969 in French
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