Tirésias
\ti.ʁe.zjas\
The verdict
“Tirésias” is uncommon French (frequency #79,805 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,805
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Célèbre devin aveugle de Thèbes, dans la mythologie grecque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tiresias · Tirésias · French
Tirésias · rank #79,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,805
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tirèrent
Nearest frequency peer: tirèrent (-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 « Tirésias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tirants
tirants
20,199 corpus weight
- Tirard
Tirard
20,198 corpus weight
- tirèrent
tirèrent
20,197 corpus weight
- Tirésias
Tirésias
20,196 corpus weight
- tita
tita
20,195 corpus weight
- torch
torch
20,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tirésias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tirésias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁe.zjas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tirésias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tirésias is uncommon French at frequency #79,805 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ti.ʁe.zjas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Célèbre devin aveugle de Thèbes, dans la mythologie grecque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tirésias in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Tirésias, spelled T-I-R-É-S-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Célèbre devin aveugle de Thèbes, dans la mythologie grecque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tirésias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voulant connaître le destin de ce fils adoré, la nymphe alla même voir Tirésias, le devin, dont le savoir était infaillible.
This word in other languages
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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