Tirlemont
\tiʁ.lə.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“Tirlemont” is uncommon French (frequency #76,178 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,178
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la province du Brabant flamand de la région flamande de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirlemont · Tirlemont · French
Tirlemont · rank #76,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,178
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tifs
Nearest frequency peer: tifs (-3 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 « Tirlemont »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teu
teu
23,828 corpus weight
- tifosi
tifosi
23,827 corpus weight
- tifs
tifs
23,826 corpus weight
- Tirlemont
Tirlemont
23,823 corpus weight
- tordent
tordent
23,820 corpus weight
- tortueuses
tortueuses
23,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tirlemont » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tirlemont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tiʁ.lə.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tirlemont » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tirlemont is uncommon French at frequency #76,178 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tiʁ.lə.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune et ville de la province du Brabant flamand de la région flamande de Belgique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tirlemont 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tirlemont, spelled T-I-R-L-E-M-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la province du Brabant flamand de la région flamande de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tirlemont appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons passé la nuit à Tirlemont, après avoir dîné encore une fois près de la cheminée.
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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