tzigane
\tsi.ɡan\
The verdict
“tzigane” is uncommon French (frequency #55,664 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,664
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peuple nomade d’Europe, originaire d’Inde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tzigane · tzigane · French
tzigane · rank #55,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,664
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TXT
Nearest frequency peer: TXT (-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 « tzigane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Trévoux
Trévoux
44,341 corpus weight
- tuner
tuner
44,339 corpus weight
- TXT
TXT
44,338 corpus weight
- tzigane
tzigane
44,337 corpus weight
- utilités
utilités
44,335 corpus weight
- Vaise
Vaise
44,334 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tzigane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tzigane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tsi.ɡan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tzigane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tzigane is uncommon French at frequency #55,664 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tsi.ɡan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peuple nomade d’Europe, originaire d’Inde.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tzigane in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 tzigane, spelled T-Z-I-G-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Peuple nomade d’Europe, originaire d’Inde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tzigane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un orchestre de tziganes.
[…] rendez-vous de tout ce qui nous arrive de l’intérieur, tziganes, saltimbanques, montreurs d’ours.
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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