tiraillement
\ti.ʁaj.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“tiraillement” is uncommon French (frequency #85,323 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,323
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tirailler ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tiraillement · tiraillement · French
tiraillement · rank #85,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,323
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TIPP
Nearest frequency peer: TIPP (-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 « tiraillement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Timur
Timur
14,681 corpus weight
- tinta
tinta
14,680 corpus weight
- TIPP
TIPP
14,679 corpus weight
- tiraillement
tiraillement
14,678 corpus weight
- titles
titles
14,677 corpus weight
- titulariser
titulariser
14,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tiraillement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiraillement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁaj.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tiraillement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tiraillement is uncommon French at frequency #85,323 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.ʁaj.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tiraillement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tiraillement, spelled T-I-R-A-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de tirailler ou résultat de cette action.
- 2, Sorte de malaise, de sensation désagréable, qui est excitée dans certaines parties intérieures du corps et qui les fait sentir comme tiraillées.
- 3Difficultés qui surviennent entre des personnes dont chacune tire à soi, ou cherche à prendre son avantage, ou à imposer sa volonté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tiraillement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Barbe séparait sur le devant deux longues torsades qu’elle nouait de ruban bleu. En moins d’un moment, les nœuds de satin glissaient et tombaient, me délivrant bientôt de leur insupportable tiraillement.
Tiraillement d’estomac.
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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