tired
\taɪəd\
The verdict
“tired” is uncommon French (frequency #75,304 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,304
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fatigué, fatiguée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tired · tired · French
tired · rank #75,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,304
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toda
Nearest frequency peer: toda (+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 « tired »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- texts
texts
24,700 corpus weight
- Thunberg
Thunberg
24,699 corpus weight
- tired
tired
24,697 corpus weight
- toda
toda
24,696 corpus weight
- tolérantes
tolérantes
24,695 corpus weight
- tombantes
tombantes
24,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tired » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tired |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \taɪəd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tired » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tired is uncommon French at frequency #75,304 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \taɪəd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tired has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tired, spelled T-I-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Fatigué, fatiguée.
- 2Las.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tired appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She was extremely tired after her ten-mile run.
I'm tired of playing checkers. Let's do something else.
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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