Tissier

\ti.sje\

/\ti.sje\/ name

The verdict

“Tissier” is uncommon French (frequency #67,164 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,164
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tissier · Tissier · French

Tissier · rank #67,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,164
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tiraillée

Nearest frequency peer: tiraillée (-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 « Tissier »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tissier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Tissier
PropertyValue
HeadwordTissier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ti.sje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#67,164
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Tissier » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Tissiertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tiraillée » (#67,163), « titubant » (#67,165), « timoré » (#67,162). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « Tissier » est au #67,164. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Tissier is uncommon French at frequency #67,164 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ti.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté en France.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Tissier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Tissier, spelled T-I-S-S-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille attesté en France.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le premier en date, la timonerie, qui abrite les appareils de navigation, sera accessible « d’ici deux semaines », estime Véro Tissier, coordinatrice du chantier.
  2. « L’individualisation de la société. L’entre-soi est devenu une valeur importante, et on ne veut plus être contrarié par les gens différents de nous », plaide Élisabeth Tissier-Desbordes, spécialiste du comportement des consommateurs.

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 "Tissier"?
"Tissier" is spelled T-I-S-S-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.sje\.
What does "Tissier" mean?
As a proper noun, "Tissier" means: Nom de famille attesté en France.
How do you pronounce "Tissier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Tissier" is \ti.sje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list