tuba
\ty.ba\
The verdict
“tuba” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,927. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,927
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gros instrument de musique à vent, à embouchure faisant partie de la famille des cuivres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuba · tuba · French
tuba · rank #33,927 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,927
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trucks
Nearest frequency peer: trucks (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tuba »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tricherie
tricherie
66,077 corpus weight
- triomphant
triomphant
66,076 corpus weight
- trucks
trucks
66,075 corpus weight
- tuba
tuba
66,074 corpus weight
- tutoriel
tutoriel
66,073 corpus weight
- unilatéral
unilatéral
66,071 corpus weight
What this shows « tuba » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tuba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tuba »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tuba (IPA \ty.ba\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,927 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tuba, with forms such as "tbua", "ttuba", and "tuab". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tué", "TVA", "tus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tuba, spelled T-U-B-A.
Definition
- 1Gros instrument de musique à vent, à embouchure faisant partie de la famille des cuivres.
- 2Tube coudé permettant à un nageur de respirer sous l’eau.
- 3Entonnoir nuageux, amorce de tornade qui ne touche pas le sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tuba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De nos jours, ces obstacles ont été levés grâce à la création des quatre pièces de base de l’équipement servant à l’immersion en apnée: le masque, les palmes, le tuba et la combinaison de plongeur […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tbua
- ttuba
- tuab
- tubba
- utba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tuba - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "tuba"?
What does "tuba" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "tuba"?
How do you pronounce "tuba"?
What language does "tuba" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tuba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).