tsi

noun

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The verdict

“tsi” is uncommon French (frequency #54,978 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,978
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tsi · tsi · French

tsi · rank #54,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,978
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH trésorière

Nearest frequency peer: trésorière (-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 « tsi »

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 « tsi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tsi
PropertyValue
Headwordtsi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#54,978
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tsi » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tsitombe 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: « trésorière » (#54,977), « troublants » (#54,976), « unlimited » (#54,980). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tsi » est au #54,978. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tsi is uncommon French at frequency #54,978 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eau.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tsi in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tsi, spelled T-S-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    eau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Tsi lá fá. L’eau est froide.

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 "tsi"?
"tsi" is spelled T-S-I.
What does "tsi" mean?
As a noun, "tsi" means: eau.
What language does "tsi" come from?
"tsi" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

uro#54,982uzi#54,985voc#54,992TMZ#54,958

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list