tiroir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,677
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
tiroir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Casier, compartiment coulissant dans un meuble grâce à une poignée. Pronounced \ti.ʁwaʁ\. Often confused with trois and Troie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiroir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tiroir is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ti.ʁwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,677 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 tiroir, with forms such as "itroir", "tiorir", and "tirior". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "trois", "Troie", "tirons", 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 tiroir, spelled T-I-R-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Casier, compartiment coulissant dans un meuble grâce à une poignée.
- 2Panneau mobile qui coulisse sous le plancher de scène.
- 3Prolongement de voie en impasse permettant le retournement des rames. On dit aussi tiroir de manœuvre et tiroir de retournement.
- 4Une des principales pièces des machines à vapeur, qui sert à distribuer alternativement la vapeur en dessus et en dessous du piston.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itroir,tiorir,tirior,tiroirr,tirori,tirroir,trioir,ttiroir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tiroir
Misspelling Variants of "tiroir"
Frequency rank: #11,677 in French
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