tirée

\ti.ʁe\

/\ti.ʁe\/ noun

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The verdict

“tirée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,474
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tirer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tiree · tirée · French

tirée · rank #8,474 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,474
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tenez

Nearest frequency peer: tenez (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tirée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tirée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tirée vs tre
60% similar
tirée vs très
40% similar
tirée vs tirs
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tirée
PropertyValue
Headwordtirée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.ʁe\
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,474
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tirée »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tiréese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tenez » (#8,473), « trajectoire » (#8,475), « Sylvie » (#8,472). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tirée » est au #8,474. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around tirée (IPA \ti.ʁe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,474 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tirée, with forms such as "itrée", "tiree", and "tireé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "très", "tirs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 tirée, spelled T-I-R-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de tirer.
  2. 2
    Portion de la surface d’une glace qu’on polit en une fois.
  3. 3
    Longue distance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tirée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ils se mirent à couper et à arracher les aunes, prenant les branches par faisceaux dans leurs mains et les tranchant à coups de hache, ou bien creusant le sol autour des racines et arrachant l’arbuste entier d’une seule tirée.
  2. La corde se déroulait derrière lui à grande allure avec la régularité d’un câble s’allongeant sous la tirée d’un bateau.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itrée
  • tiree
  • tireé
  • tirrée
  • tiére
  • triée
  • ttirée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tirée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

itrée2tiree1tireé2tirrée1tiére2triée2ttirée1
Edit distance from "tirée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tirée"?
"tirée" is spelled T-I-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.ʁe\.
What does "tirée" mean?
As a noun, "tirée" means: Action de tirer.
What words are commonly confused with "tirée"?
"tirée" is commonly confused with "tre", "très", "tirs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tirée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tirée" is \ti.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tirée" come from?
"tirée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tirée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tenez#8,473vends#8,479staff#8,463about#8,490

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

anneaux7 variantsbidon7 variantspoker7 variantsCNRS7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list