tireur
\ti.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“tireur” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,936 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,936
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui tire, aux divers sens du mot.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “tireur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tireur is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tireur, with forms such as "itreur", "tierur", and "tireru". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tueur", "tirez", "tumeur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tireur, spelled T-I-R-E-U-R.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itreur,tierur,tireru,tireurr,tirreur,tiruer,trieur,ttireur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tireur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “tireur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-I-R-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ti.ʁœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tueur” - see the side-by-side comparison. tireur vs tueur
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.