tiraille
\ti.ʁɑj\
The verdict
“tiraille” is uncommon French (frequency #93,325 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,325
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rédaction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tiraille · tiraille · French
tiraille · rank #93,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,325
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tissulaires
Nearest frequency peer: tissulaires (+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 « tiraille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tintouin
tintouin
6,679 corpus weight
- tipo
tipo
6,678 corpus weight
- tiraille
tiraille
6,676 corpus weight
- tissulaires
tissulaires
6,675 corpus weight
- toilet
toilet
6,673 corpus weight
- Tomasz
Tomasz
6,672 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tiraille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiraille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁɑj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tiraille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tiraille is uncommon French at frequency #93,325 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.ʁɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
tiraille doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tiraille, spelled T-I-R-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Rédaction.
- 2Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 3Morceau de viande plein de nerfs ou de tendons, difficile à tailler ou à mastiquer.
- 4Jeu d’écolier où deux camps se tiraillent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tiraille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une tiraille doit être tellement contruite qu’elle puisse produire tous les changemens de direction nécessaires soit dans le sens horizontal, soit dans le sens vertical.
TIRAILLE ou TIRAGNE, s. f. morceau de viande plein de nerfs, de tendons, d’où les dents ne s’arrachent, ne se tirent qu’avec peine.
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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