tiroirs

\ti.ʁwaʁ\

/\ti.ʁwaʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“tiroirs” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,485
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tiroir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tiroirs · tiroirs · French

tiroirs · rank #21,485 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,485
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH thaï

Nearest frequency peer: thaï (-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 « tiroirs »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tiroirs » 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).

tiroirs vs trois
71% similar
tiroirs vs tirons
71% similar
tiroirs vs tiroir
86% similar

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

Key facts for tiroirs
PropertyValue
Headwordtiroirs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.ʁwaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#21,485
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tiroirs »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tiroirsse 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 « thaï » (#21,484), « toléré » (#21,486), « tondeuse » (#21,487). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tiroirs » est au #21,485. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around tiroirs (IPA \ti.ʁwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,485 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tiroir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tiroirs, with forms such as "itroirs", "tiorirs", and "tiriors". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "trois", "tirons", "tiroir", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tiroirs, spelled T-I-R-O-I-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de tiroir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Comme il fait froid ! s’était-il écrié tandis que ses sœurs, aux cheveux dénoués, habillées de chemise de nuit pâles, de jupes onduleuses et de robes de lin froufroutantes, ornées de rubans multicolores (zinzolin, nacarat, aurore), forçaient les malles, les débarras et les penderies, allumaient les bougies, plantaient des bouquets dans les vases, crocheta…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itroirs
  • tiorirs
  • tiriors
  • tiroirrs
  • tiroirss
  • tiroisr
  • tiroris
  • tirroirs
  • trioirs
  • ttiroirs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

itroirs2tiorirs2tiriors2tiroirrs1tiroirss1tiroisr2tiroris2tirroirs1
Edit distance from "tiroirs"

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 "tiroirs"?
"tiroirs" is spelled T-I-R-O-I-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.ʁwaʁ\.
What does "tiroirs" mean?
As a noun, "tiroirs" means: Pluriel de tiroir.
What words are commonly confused with "tiroirs"?
"tiroirs" is commonly confused with "trois", "tirons", "tiroir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tiroirs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tiroirs" is \ti.ʁwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tiroirs" come from?
"tiroirs" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list