tirer l’aiguille
\ti.ʁe l‿ɛ.ɡɥij\
The verdict
“tirer l’aiguille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirer-l-aiguille · tirer l’aiguille · French
tirer l’aiguille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | tirer l’aiguille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ti.ʁe l‿ɛ.ɡɥij\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tirer l’aiguille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ti.ʁe l‿ɛ.ɡɥij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coudre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tirer l’aiguille, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tirer l’aiguille, spelled T-I-R-E-R- -L-’-A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Coudre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tirer l’aiguille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Elle a du bon, pensait Anthime en la voyant tirer l’aiguille. J’aurais pu épouser une coquette qui m’eût trompé une volage qui m’eût planté là, une bavarde qui m’eût rompu la tête, une bécasse qui m’eût fait sortir de mes gonds, une grinchue comme ma belle-sœur…
La guerre a paru longue à toutes les mères ; mais celles qui vivaient sous le couvercle de la province et tiraient l’aiguille pour passer le temps étaient peut-être plus absorbées que les autres dans l’inquiétude. L’eau qui dort est plus noire que l’eau courante.
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.