tribune
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tribune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.byn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Lieu élevé d’où les orateurs grecs et les orateurs romains haranguaient le peuple.
- 2Lieu élevé ou estrade d’où parlent les orateurs.
- 3Lieu 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.
- 4Éditorial ; article d’opinion.
- 5Déambulateur.
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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"
Frequency rank: #4,388 in French
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