tire-larmes
\tiʁ.laʁm\
The verdict
“tire-larmes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Œuvre littéraire, musicale ou cinématographique au caractère sentimental marqué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tire-larmes · tire-larmes · French
tire-larmes · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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-larmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tiʁ.laʁm\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tire-larmes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tire-larmes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tiʁ.laʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Œuvre littéraire, musicale ou cinématographique au caractère sentimental marqué.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tire-larmes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 tire-larmes, spelled T-I-R-E---L-A-R-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Œuvre littéraire, musicale ou cinématographique au caractère sentimental marqué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tire-larmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son projet suivant était pour Darryl Zanuck à la Fox, La vie commence à huit heures trente, un tire-larmes hollywoodien avec John Barrymore dans le rôle principal, qui devait jouer un père Noël alcoolique affligé d'une fille handicapée.
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.