tribune

/\tʁi.byn\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,388

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

tribune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu élevé d’où les orateurs grecs et les orateurs romains haranguaient le peuple. Pronounced \tʁi.byn\. It ranks #4,388 in French word frequency. Often confused with tribus and tribut.

Key facts for tribune
PropertyValue
Headwordtribune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁi.byn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,388
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tribune in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tribune is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁi.byn\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,388 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for tribune, with forms such as "rtibune", "tirbune", and "trbiune". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "tribus", "tribut", "trique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 tribune, spelled T-R-I-B-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu élevé d’où les orateurs grecs et les orateurs romains haranguaient le peuple.
  2. 2
    Lieu élevé ou estrade d’où parlent les orateurs.
  3. 3
    Lieu ordinairement assez élevé, où se mettent certaines personnes qui doivent occuper une place séparée, dans les églises, dans les lieux d’assemblée publique, les événements sportifs, etc.
  4. 4
    Éditorial ; article d’opinion.
  5. 5
    Déambulateur.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtibune,tirbune,trbiune,tribbune,tribnue,tribuen,tribunne,triubne,trribune,ttribune

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tribune

Misspelling Variants of "tribune"

rtibune7tirbune7trbiune7tribbune8tribnue7tribuen7tribunne8triubne7
Misspelling Variants of "tribune"

Frequency rank: #4,388 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tribune"?
"tribune" is spelled T-R-I-B-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁi.byn\.
What does "tribune" mean?
As a noun, "tribune" means: Lieu élevé d’où les orateurs grecs et les orateurs romains haranguaient le peuple.
What words are commonly confused with "tribune"?
"tribune" is commonly confused with "tribus", "tribut", "trique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tribune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tribune" is \tʁi.byn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tribune" come from?
"tribune" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.