Tixier
\tik.sje\
The verdict
“Tixier” is uncommon French (frequency #67,166 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,166
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tixier · Tixier · French
Tixier · rank #67,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,166
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH titubant
Nearest frequency peer: titubant (-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 « Tixier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- timoré
timoré
32,839 corpus weight
- tiraillée
tiraillée
32,838 corpus weight
- Tissier
Tissier
32,837 corpus weight
- titubant
titubant
32,836 corpus weight
- Tixier
Tixier
32,835 corpus weight
- Tonino
Tonino
32,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tixier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tixier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tik.sje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tixier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tixier is uncommon French at frequency #67,166 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tik.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tixier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tixier, spelled T-I-X-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tixier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’intérêt pour le tatouage est très fort, insiste le producteur Olivier Tixier.
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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