tuber
\ty.be\
The verdict
“tuber” is uncommon French (frequency #79,825 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,825
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forger en forme de tube.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuber · tuber · French
tuber · rank #79,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,825
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tuamotu
Nearest frequency peer: Tuamotu (-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 « tuber »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- TSH
TSH
20,179 corpus weight
- tuais
tuais
20,178 corpus weight
- Tuamotu
Tuamotu
20,177 corpus weight
- tuber
tuber
20,176 corpus weight
- tumultes
tumultes
20,175 corpus weight
- ténia
ténia
20,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuber » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ty.be\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tuber » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tuber is uncommon French at frequency #79,825 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ty.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tuber, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tuber, spelled T-U-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Forger en forme de tube.
- 2Revêtir de tubes un trou foré en terre.
- 3Remplir de tabac un tube de cigarette à l’aide d’une tubeuse.
- 4Fumer une cigarette.
- 5Téléphoner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tuber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que nul serrurier ne pourra garnir serrures en fer tubé, si le fer n’est souffisant (sic) ; car le fer tubé n’est pas suffisant à porter garnissement d’une serrure.
Suite à de nombreuses interrogations de nos clients, nous avons établi un comparatif pour déterminer la rentabilité des cigarettes tubées et roulées par rapport aux cigarettes industrielles.
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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