tiret
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,185
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tiret is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit trait (—) qui sert à indiquer un nouvel interlocuteur dans un dialogue, à séparer une phrase ou une partie de phrase comme le font les parenthèses, ou à énumérer des éléments dans une liste. Pronounced \ti.ʁɛ\. Often confused with tre and tit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tiret is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ti.ʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,185 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tiret, with forms such as "itret", "tiert", and "tirett". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "tit", "très", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tiret, spelled T-I-R-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit trait (—) qui sert à indiquer un nouvel interlocuteur dans un dialogue, à séparer une phrase ou une partie de phrase comme le font les parenthèses, ou à énumérer des éléments dans une liste.
- 2Petit morceau de parchemin coupé en long et tortillé, servant à enfiler et à attacher des papiers ensemble.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itret,tiert,tirett,tirret,triet,ttiret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tiret
Misspelling Variants of "tiret"
Frequency rank: #43,185 in French
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