tuais
\tɥɛ\
The verdict
“tuais” is uncommon French (frequency #79,823 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,823
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuais · tuais · French
tuais · rank #79,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,823
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TSH
Nearest frequency peer: TSH (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tuais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- troglodyte
troglodyte
20,181 corpus weight
- trouillard
trouillard
20,180 corpus weight
- TSH
TSH
20,179 corpus weight
- tuais
tuais
20,178 corpus weight
- Tuamotu
Tuamotu
20,177 corpus weight
- tuber
tuber
20,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tuais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tuais is uncommon French at frequency #79,823 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɥɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tuais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tuais, spelled T-U-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tuer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tuais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est pas moi qui tuais, moi je réparais, je ressoudais un pipeline, quand j’ai été frappé, et c’est lui auquel je m’appuie, non, le sable plutôt…
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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