tirelire

\tiʁ.liʁ\

/\tiʁ.liʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“tirelire” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,332
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit récipient de céramique, de bois, de métal, etc., dans lequel on introduit par une fente des pièces de monnaie pour les mettre en réserve.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tirelire · tirelire · French

tirelire · rank #34,332 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #34,332
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tilt

Nearest frequency peer: tilt (-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 « tirelire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tirelire » 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).

tirelire vs timeline
75% similar

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

Key facts for tirelire
PropertyValue
Headwordtirelire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tiʁ.liʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#34,332
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tirelire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tirelirese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tilt » (#34,331), « titrage » (#34,333), « tombale » (#34,334). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tirelire » est au #34,332. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around tirelire (IPA \tiʁ.liʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,332 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tirelire, with forms such as "itrelire", "tierlire", and "tireilre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "timeline", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tirelire, spelled T-I-R-E-L-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit récipient de céramique, de bois, de métal, etc., dans lequel on introduit par une fente des pièces de monnaie pour les mettre en réserve.
  2. 2
    Tête.
  3. 3
    Tête.
  4. 4
    Vagin.
  5. 5
    Prison.
  6. 6
    Chant de l’alouette (et d’autres oiseaux). ]

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Votre tirelire est confisquée, me dit-elle d'un ton sévère. Ces mots furent un coup de foudre pour moi, car ma tirelire renfermait bien des espérances.
  2. À onze ans, j’ai cassé mon cochon et je suis allé voir les putes. Mon cochon, c’était une tirelire en porcelaine vernie, couleur de vomi, avec une fente qui permettait à la pièce d’entrer mais pas de sortir.

Synonyms

cache-maillecagnottetirelirement

This word in other languages

money box(English)hucha(Español)Sparschwein(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itrelire
  • tierlire
  • tireilre
  • tirelier
  • tirelirre
  • tirellire
  • tirelrie
  • tirleire
  • tirrelire
  • trielire
  • ttirelire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tirelire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

itrelire2tierlire2tireilre2tirelier2tirelirre1tirellire1tirelrie2tirleire2
Edit distance from "tirelire"

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 "tirelire"?
"tirelire" is spelled T-I-R-E-L-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tiʁ.liʁ\.
What does "tirelire" mean?
As a noun, "tirelire" means: Petit récipient de céramique, de bois, de métal, etc., dans lequel on introduit par une fente des pièces de monnaie pour les mettre en réserve.
What words are commonly confused with "tirelire"?
"tirelire" is commonly confused with "timeline". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tirelire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tirelire" is \tiʁ.liʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tirelire" come from?
"tirelire" 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 "tirelire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tantinet#34,326spécifie#34,318soignent#34,315veillera#34,353

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

éjecter11 variantsressortie11 variantsprobant11 variantspoulains11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list