question qui tue

/\kɛs.tjɔ̃ ki ty\/ noun

The verdict

“question qui tue” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Question qui dérange, perturbe l’interlocuteur.

Key facts for question qui tue
PropertyValue
Headwordquestion qui tue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɛs.tjɔ̃ ki ty\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “question qui tue” sits in French frequency

question qui tue falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for question qui tue is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ ki ty\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Question qui dérange, perturbe l’interlocuteur.".

No misspelling variants are generated for question qui tue in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is question qui tue, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -Q-U-I- -T-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Question qui dérange, perturbe l’interlocuteur.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "question qui tue"?
"question qui tue" is spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -Q-U-I- -T-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɛs.tjɔ̃ ki ty\.
What does "question qui tue" mean?
As a noun, "question qui tue" means: Question qui dérange, perturbe l’interlocuteur.
How do you pronounce "question qui tue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "question qui tue" is \kɛs.tjɔ̃ ki ty\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "question qui tue" come from?
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Using “question qui tue”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -Q-U-I- -T-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ ki ty\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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