tit
\tit\
The verdict
“tit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,710) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,710
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de titit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tit · tit · French
tit · rank #23,710 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,710
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tibia
Nearest frequency peer: tibia (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tit »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- thunder
thunder
76,294 corpus weight
- thérapies
thérapies
76,293 corpus weight
- tibia
tibia
76,292 corpus weight
- tit
tit
76,291 corpus weight
- toby
toby
76,290 corpus weight
- tofu
tofu
76,289 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tit » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tit\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tit »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tit is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tit\. Frequency #23,710 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Synonyme de titit.".
tit has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tit, spelled T-I-T.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de titit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rossignols, les fauvettes, les tits, les bergeronnettes, les rouges-gorges, les alouettes, les pinsons, les linottes, périssent par millions chaque jour dans les engins de toutes sortes, et notamment dans les pantes, Extr. du Journ. de l'agr. et d'hortic. de la Gironde.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).