teinture

\tɛ̃.tyʁ\

/\tɛ̃.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“teinture” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,339
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide préparé pour teindre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-teinture · teinture · French

teinture · rank #18,339 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,339
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tam

Nearest frequency peer: tam (-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 « teinture »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « teinture » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

teinture vs texture
75% similar
teinture vs toiture
75% similar
teinture vs teintures
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for teinture
PropertyValue
Headwordteinture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɛ̃.tyʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,339
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « teinture »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).teinturese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tam » (#18,338), « tenta » (#18,340), « sélective » (#18,337). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « teinture » est au #18,339. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around teinture (IPA \tɛ̃.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,339 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for teinture, with forms such as "etinture", "teinnture", and "teintrue". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "texture", "toiture", "teintures", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is teinture, spelled T-E-I-N-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liquide préparé pour teindre.
  2. 2
    Couleur que ce liquide laisse sur les étoffes et sur les autres choses que l’on teint.
  3. 3
    Action, art de teindre.
  4. 4
    Forme galénique liquide obtenue par dissolution d’un principe actif, le plus souvent végétal, dans un solvant organique tel que l’alcool ou, plus rarement, l’éther. Les teintures sont utilisées à des fins thérapeutiques ou antiseptiques.
  5. 5
    Connaissance superficielle dans quelque science, dans quelque art.
  6. 6
    Préparation censée teindre les métaux et en modifier les propriétés, notamment en leur donnant la couleur de l’or ou de l’argent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. À Arles, l’archevêque, qui avait le monopole de l’exploitation de la graine d’écarlate, avec laquelle on fabriquait la teinture rouge, ne traitait, pour la vente de ses récoltes, qu’avec les juifs.
  2. "La magnifique teinte violette, le fait qu'elle ne décolore pas et la difficulté à produire ce colorant, que l'on trouve en minuscules quantités dans le corps de petits mollusques", ont fait de la pourpre royale une teinture prestigieuse qui "coûtait souvent plus cher que l'or", souligne-t-elle.

This word in other languages

dyeing(English)teñido(Español)Farbstoff(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • etinture
  • teinnture
  • teintrue
  • teintture
  • teintuer
  • teinturre
  • teinutre
  • teitnure
  • teniture
  • tienture
  • tteinture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of teinture - 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.

etinture2teinnture1teintrue2teintture1teintuer2teinturre1teinutre2teitnure2
Edit distance from "teinture"

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 "teinture"?
"teinture" is spelled T-E-I-N-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɛ̃.tyʁ\.
What does "teinture" mean?
As a noun, "teinture" means: Liquide préparé pour teindre.
What words are commonly confused with "teinture"?
"teinture" is commonly confused with "texture", "toiture", "teintures". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "teinture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "teinture" is \tɛ̃.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "teinture" come from?
"teinture" 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 "teinture", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

tombées11 variantsrégence11 variantsvolants11 variantsrepoussée11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list