thu
\θɨː\
The verdict
“thu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,228) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,228
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de tu par spirantisation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thu · thu · French
thu · rank #48,228 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,228
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thons
Nearest frequency peer: thons (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « thu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tentais
tentais
51,777 corpus weight
- terreaux
terreaux
51,776 corpus weight
- thons
thons
51,774 corpus weight
- thu
thu
51,773 corpus weight
- thug
thug
51,772 corpus weight
- Tiphaine
Tiphaine
51,771 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « thu » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | thu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \θɨː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « thu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for thu is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \θɨː\. Frequency #48,228 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Forme mutée de tu par spirantisation.".
thu has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is thu, spelled T-H-U.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de tu par spirantisation.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).