tireuse

\ti.ʁøz\

/\ti.ʁøz\/ noun

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The verdict

“tireuse” is uncommon French (frequency #60,433 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,433
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui tire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tireuse · tireuse · French

tireuse · rank #60,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,433
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tiquer

Nearest frequency peer: tiquer (-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 « tireuse »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tireuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tireuse
PropertyValue
Headwordtireuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.ʁøz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#60,433
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tireuse » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tireusetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tiquer » (#60,432), « tomographie » (#60,434), « tight » (#60,431). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tireuse » est au #60,433. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tireuse is uncommon French at frequency #60,433 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.ʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 12 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tireuse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tireuse, spelled T-I-R-E-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui tire.
  2. 2
    Celle qui tire à l’aide d’une arme à feu.
  3. 3
    Sportive qui pratique le tir avec une arme à feu.
  4. 4
    Sportive qui tire au but.
  5. 5
    Celle qui sait tirer, qui s’exerce au maniement des armes (épée, fleuret, sabre).
  6. 6
    Sportive qui tire sur l’aviron, rameuse.
  7. 7
    Celle qui tire un chèque, une lettre de change.
  8. 8
    Ouvrière dont le métier est de tirer les métaux précieux comme l’or ou l’argent en fils déliés.
  9. 9
    Celle qui effectue un tirage photographique.
  10. 10
    Sorte d’appareil pour effectuer le soutirage des liquides.
  11. 11
    Sorte d’appareil pour dupliquer des films à partir d’un original.
  12. 12
    Imprimante (années 1950-1960).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tireuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Accident de chasse mortel : la tireuse présumée mise en examen et placée sous contrôle judiciaire
  2. Samedi 19 février, la tireuse de Creil a décroché la médaille d’or au tir au pistolet à 10 mètres dames lors des Championnats de France, qui se déroulaient à Besançon.

Synonyms

remplisseusesoutireuse

This word in other languages

shooter(English)tiradora(Español)Schützin(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tireuse"?
"tireuse" is spelled T-I-R-E-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.ʁøz\.
What does "tireuse" mean?
As a noun, "tireuse" means: Celle qui tire.
How do you pronounce "tireuse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tireuse" is \ti.ʁøz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tireuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

testons#60,429telling#60,426tarquin#60,421sûretés#60,418

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list