tireur

/\ti.ʁœʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for tireur
PropertyValue
Headwordtireur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.ʁœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,936
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tireur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Celui qui tire, aux divers sens du mot.
  2. 2
    Celui qui tire à l’aide d’une arme à feu.
  3. 3
    Sportif qui pratique le tir avec une arme à feu.
  4. 4
    Sportif qui tire au but.
  5. 5
    Celui qui sait tirer, qui s’exerce au maniement des armes (épée, fleuret, sabre).
  6. 6
    Celui qui tire sur l'aviron, rameur.
  7. 7
    Celui qui tire un chèque, une lettre de change.
  8. 8
    Joueur qui élimine, pour dégager la zone de jeu, les boules placées trop près du but par les adversaires.
  9. 9
    Tireur 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.
  10. 10
    Celui qui effectue un tirage photographique.
  11. 11
    Ouvrier 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.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

itreur6tierur6tireru6tireurr7tirreur7tiruer6trieur6ttireur7
Misspelling Variants of "tireur"

Frequency rank: #8,936 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tireur"?
"tireur" is spelled T-I-R-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.ʁœʁ\.
What does "tireur" mean?
As a noun, "tireur" means: Celui qui tire, aux divers sens du mot.
What words are commonly confused with "tireur"?
"tireur" is commonly confused with "tueur", "tirez", "tumeur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tireur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tireur" is \ti.ʁœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tireur" come from?
"tireur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.