tatouer
\ta.twe\
The verdict
“tatouer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,634. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,634
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marquer la peau de dessins en introduisant de la couleur sous l’épiderme au moyen d’une pointe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tatouer · tatouer · French
tatouer · rank #27,634 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,634
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapisseries
Nearest frequency peer: tapisseries (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tatouer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supervisé
supervisé
72,370 corpus weight
- taillés
taillés
72,369 corpus weight
- tapisseries
tapisseries
72,368 corpus weight
- tatouer
tatouer
72,367 corpus weight
- terminales
terminales
72,366 corpus weight
- thermale
thermale
72,364 corpus weight
What this shows « tatouer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tatouer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.twe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tatouer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tatouer (IPA \ta.twe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,634 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Marquer la peau de dessins en introduisant de la couleur sous l’épiderme au moyen d’une pointe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tatouer, with forms such as "attouer", "taotuer", and "tatoeur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "trouer", "tutoyer", "tatoués", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tatouer, spelled T-A-T-O-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Marquer la peau de dessins en introduisant de la couleur sous l’épiderme au moyen d’une pointe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tatouer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un grande partie des vieux indigènes était tatouée. Cela ne me surprenait pas, car Fata-Hiva avait toujours été célèbre pour ses tatoueurs et ses sculpteurs.
Ainsi, avant la guerre, y avait rien de plus marle que d'être tatoué.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- attouer
- taotuer
- tatoeur
- tatouerr
- tatoure
- tattouer
- tatuoer
- ttaouer
- ttatouer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tatouer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tatouer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).