tire-bouchon
\tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“tire-bouchon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de vis de fer ou d’acier munie d’un petit manche ou d’un anneau et dont on se sert pour tirer les bouchons des bouteilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tire-bouchon · tire-bouchon · French
tire-bouchon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tire-bouchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tire-bouchon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tire-bouchon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de vis de fer ou d’acier munie d’un petit manche ou d’un anneau et dont on se sert pour tirer les bouchons des bouteilles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tire-bouchon in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tire-bouchon, spelled T-I-R-E---B-O-U-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Sorte de vis de fer ou d’acier munie d’un petit manche ou d’un anneau et dont on se sert pour tirer les bouchons des bouteilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tire-bouchon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles parlent à ceux dont le sang est poussière, la verge, un tire-bouchon philanthropique et les couilles, deux pauvres lampions ramassés dans les poubelles du libéralisme, un lendemain de quatorze juillet.
Dans le désert tu trouves un macchabée en gorge que tu ne peux pas identifier : on lui fouille les poches. Quand on trouve un ouvre-boîtes, c’est un British, et quand c'est un tire-bouchon, c’est un Français.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.