tireur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,936
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tireur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui tire, aux divers sens du mot. Pronounced \ti.ʁœʁ\. It ranks #8,936 in French word frequency. Often confused with tueur and tirez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tireur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tireur is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ti.ʁœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,936 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tireur, with forms such as "itreur", "tierur", and "tireru". 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, "tueur", "tirez", "tumeur", 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 tireur, spelled T-I-R-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui tire, aux divers sens du mot.
- 2Celui qui tire à l’aide d’une arme à feu.
- 3Sportif qui pratique le tir avec une arme à feu.
- 4Sportif qui tire au but.
- 5Celui qui sait tirer, qui s’exerce au maniement des armes (épée, fleuret, sabre).
- 6Celui qui tire sur l'aviron, rameur.
- 7Celui qui tire un chèque, une lettre de change.
- 8Joueur qui élimine, pour dégager la zone de jeu, les boules placées trop près du but par les adversaires.
- 9Tireur d’or, ouvrier qui fabriquait des fils d’or ou d'argent en le faisant passer par des filières de plus en plus fine et en tirant sur le fil.
- 10Celui qui effectue un tirage photographique.
- 11Ouvrier au fond chargé d’introduire les wagonnets pleins dans la cage d’extraction, au moment où elle s’arrête au niveau de l’accrochage, et retirer les wagonnets vides ramenés de la surface.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itreur,tierur,tireru,tireurr,tirreur,tiruer,trieur,ttireur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tireur
Misspelling Variants of "tireur"
Frequency rank: #8,936 in French
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