tirais
\ti.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“tirais” is uncommon French (frequency #61,184 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,184
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe tirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirais · tirais · French
tirais · rank #61,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,184
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tintement
Nearest frequency peer: tintement (-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 « tirais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- terrorisent
terrorisent
38,821 corpus weight
- thoughts
thoughts
38,820 corpus weight
- tintement
tintement
38,818 corpus weight
- tirais
tirais
38,817 corpus weight
- TMS
TMS
38,816 corpus weight
- TomTom
TomTom
38,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tirais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ti.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tirais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tirais is uncommon French at frequency #61,184 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ti.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tirais in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tirais, spelled T-I-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe tirer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe tirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tirais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je gagnais peut-être moins quand je tirais des cartes postales pour Chapuis, mais au moins ça ne sentait que le diamidophénol !
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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