tirets
\ti.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“tirets” is uncommon French (frequency #66,383 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,383
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tiret.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirets · tirets · French
tirets · rank #66,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,383
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timbale
Nearest frequency peer: timbale (-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 « tirets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thuin
Thuin
33,620 corpus weight
- timbale
timbale
33,619 corpus weight
- tirets
tirets
33,618 corpus weight
- titrait
titrait
33,617 corpus weight
- titrées
titrées
33,616 corpus weight
- TNP
TNP
33,615 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tirets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tirets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tirets is uncommon French at frequency #66,383 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tiret.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tirets in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 tirets, spelled T-I-R-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tiret.
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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