tisseur
\ti.sœʁ\
The verdict
“tisseur” is uncommon French (frequency #95,403 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,403
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui tisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tisseur · tisseur · French
tisseur · rank #95,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,403
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TMTC
Nearest frequency peer: TMTC (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tisseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thick
thick
4,603 corpus weight
- théologique…
théologiquement
4,600 corpus weight
- tisseur
tisseur
4,598 corpus weight
- TMTC
TMTC
4,597 corpus weight
- tolérables
tolérables
4,596 corpus weight
- topaz
topaz
4,594 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tisseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tisseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tisseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tisseur is uncommon French at frequency #95,403 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui tisse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tisseur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tisseur, spelled T-I-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui tisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tisseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Monts du Lyonnais et du Beaujolais, qui abritaient depuis un temps immémorial le tissage domestique des toiles, furent pour la métropole de la soie une réserve inépuisable d'ouvriers héréditairement façonnés à l'austère existence du tisseur.
This word in other languages
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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