Tirana
\ti.ʁa.na\
The verdict
“Tirana” is uncommon French (frequency #64,132 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,132
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de l’Albanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirana · Tirana · French
Tirana · rank #64,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,132
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timbrés
Nearest frequency peer: timbrés (-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 « Tirana »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thaïlandais…
thaïlandaises
35,873 corpus weight
- théâtralité
théâtralité
35,871 corpus weight
- timbrés
timbrés
35,870 corpus weight
- Tirana
Tirana
35,869 corpus weight
- tomberas
tomberas
35,867 corpus weight
- toponyme
toponyme
35,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tirana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tirana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁa.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tirana » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tirana is uncommon French at frequency #64,132 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ti.ʁa.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale de l’Albanie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tirana in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tirana, spelled T-I-R-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale de l’Albanie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tirana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Djègues occupent toute l’Albanie rouge et septentrionale, qui s’étend de Skadar (Scutari) jusqu’à Prisren, et d’Elbassan jusqu’aux sources de la Boïana. Les Djègues mahométans sont groupés autour du visir de Skadar, le long de la Boïana, et sur la côte, à Antivari, Dulcigno, Croïa, Alessio, Tirana, Durazzo, d’où ils s’étendent dans l’intérieur des ter…
Tandis qu’à Salonique et à Constantinople, le Comité U. et P. proclamait qu’il n’y avait plus, dans l’Empire, ni Turcs, ni Bulgares, ni Arméniens, ni Albanais, ni musulmans, ni chrétiens, mais seulement des citoyens ottomans, fidèles au Sultan et à la Constitution, libres et égaux en droits, à Tirana et à Elbassan, des réunions nationalistes proclamaient…
This word in other languages
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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