tuberculeux
\ty.bɛʁ.ky.lø\
The verdict
“tuberculeux” is uncommon French (frequency #66,402 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,402
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tuberculé ; comportant des excroissances.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuberculeux · tuberculeux · French
tuberculeux · rank #66,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,402
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trillions
Nearest frequency peer: trillions (-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 « tuberculeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tribunat
tribunat
33,602 corpus weight
- trillions
trillions
33,600 corpus weight
- tuberculeux
tuberculeux
33,599 corpus weight
- Tuesday
Tuesday
33,598 corpus weight
- tumorale
tumorale
33,597 corpus weight
- twit
twit
33,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuberculeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuberculeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ty.bɛʁ.ky.lø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tuberculeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tuberculeux is uncommon French at frequency #66,402 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ty.bɛʁ.ky.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tuberculeux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tuberculeux, spelled T-U-B-E-R-C-U-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Tuberculé ; comportant des excroissances.
- 2Tubéreux ; qui est de la nature du tubercule.
- 3Qui a rapport à la tuberculose.
- 4Qui est atteint de la tuberculose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tuberculeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les espèces dont la gousse est courbée en faucille, ridée ou tuberculeuse sur les côtés, et dont le dos se prolonge en une aile large et membraneuse, qui entoure presque tout le fruit.
Fruits très finement tuberculeux
Synonyms
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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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