tirants
\ti.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“tirants” is uncommon French (frequency #79,802 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,802
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de tirant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirants · tirants · French
tirants · rank #79,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,802
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tirard
Nearest frequency peer: Tirard (+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 « tirants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Théa
Théa
20,203 corpus weight
- théorise
théorise
20,202 corpus weight
- tirants
tirants
20,199 corpus weight
- Tirard
Tirard
20,198 corpus weight
- tirèrent
tirèrent
20,197 corpus weight
- Tirésias
Tirésias
20,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tirants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ti.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tirants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tirants is uncommon French at frequency #79,802 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ti.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de tirant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tirants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tirants, spelled T-I-R-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de tirant.
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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