tiroir

\ti.ʁwaʁ\

/\ti.ʁwaʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“tiroir” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,677. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,677
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casier, compartiment coulissant dans un meuble grâce à une poignée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tiroir · tiroir · French

tiroir · rank #11,677 · 8 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,677
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH thriller

Nearest frequency peer: thriller (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tiroir »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tiroir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tiroir vs trois
67% similar
tiroir vs Troie
50% similar
tiroir vs tirons
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tiroir
PropertyValue
Headwordtiroir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.ʁwaʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,677
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tiroir »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).tiroirse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « thriller » (#11,676), « tirées » (#11,678), « terroir » (#11,675). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tiroir » est au #11,677. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around tiroir (IPA \ti.ʁwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,677 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tiroir, with forms such as "itroir", "tiorir", and "tirior". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "trois", "Troie", "tirons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tiroir, spelled T-I-R-O-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Casier, compartiment coulissant dans un meuble grâce à une poignée.
  2. 2
    Panneau mobile qui coulisse sous le plancher de scène.
  3. 3
    Prolongement de voie en impasse permettant le retournement des rames. On dit aussi tiroir de manœuvre et tiroir de retournement.
  4. 4
    Une des principales pièces des machines à vapeur, qui sert à distribuer alternativement la vapeur en dessus et en dessous du piston.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans un tiroir, il y avait trente billets de mille francs, trente, attachés, par paquets de dix, avec des faveurs roses, ainsi que des lettres d’amour…
  2. On emploie pour l’emmagasinement des cocons, des tiroirs dont le fond est constitué par un grillage métallique, désignés sous le nom de canisses ou claies.

This word in other languages

drawer(English)cajón(Español)Schublade(Deutsch)gaveta(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itroir
  • tiorir
  • tirior
  • tiroirr
  • tirori
  • tirroir
  • trioir
  • ttiroir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tiroir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

itroir2tiorir2tirior2tiroirr1tirori2tirroir1trioir2ttiroir1
Edit distance from "tiroir"

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 "tiroir"?
"tiroir" is spelled T-I-R-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.ʁwaʁ\.
What does "tiroir" mean?
As a noun, "tiroir" means: Casier, compartiment coulissant dans un meuble grâce à une poignée.
What words are commonly confused with "tiroir"?
"tiroir" is commonly confused with "trois", "Troie", "tirons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tiroir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tiroir" is \ti.ʁwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tiroir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tirées#11,678Turner#11,683Sergio#11,665wagons#11,690

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

terroir8 variantsadorer8 variantsaidant8 variantsRalph8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list