tirs au but
\ti.ʁ‿o.by\
The verdict
“tirs au but” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Épreuve complémentaire appliquée lors de certaines rencontres pour départager deux équipes restées à égalité à l’issue du temps de jeu imparti.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirs au but |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁ‿o.by\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tirs au but” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tirs au but is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ti.ʁ‿o.by\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Épreuve complémentaire appliquée lors de certaines rencontres pour départager deux équipes restées à égalité à l’issue du temps de jeu imparti.".
tirs au but doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tirs au but, spelled T-I-R-S- -A-U- -B-U-T.
Definition
- 1Épreuve complémentaire appliquée lors de certaines rencontres pour départager deux équipes restées à égalité à l’issue du temps de jeu imparti.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “tirs au but”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-I-R-S- -A-U- -B-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ti.ʁ‿o.by\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.