tua
\tɥa\
The verdict
“tua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,403) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,403
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tua · tua · French
tua · rank #23,403 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,403
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trot
Nearest frequency peer: trot (-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 « tua »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- travailliste
travailliste
76,600 corpus weight
- trot
trot
76,599 corpus weight
- tua
tua
76,598 corpus weight
- télétravail
télétravail
76,597 corpus weight
- Ulm
Ulm
76,596 corpus weight
- UTC
UTC
76,595 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tua » 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 | tua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɥa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tua »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tua is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "ty", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \tɥa\. Frequency #23,403 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tuer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tua, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "ty", "tx", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tua, spelled T-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La balle de quelque négociant tua là l’une des plus nobles créatures qui foulassent le sol français.
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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