tuberculose
\ty.bɛʁ.ky.loz\
The verdict
“tuberculose” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,377
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie infectieuse et contagieuse, chronique, des animaux et des humains (zoonose), pouvant atteindre tous les organes, caractérisée par la présence du bacille de Koch.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuberculose · tuberculose · French
tuberculose · rank #14,377 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,377
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transforment
Nearest frequency peer: transforment (-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 « tuberculose »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tortues
tortues
85,627 corpus weight
- trail
trail
85,626 corpus weight
- transforment
transforment
85,625 corpus weight
- tuberculose
tuberculose
85,624 corpus weight
- télécommande
télécommande
85,623 corpus weight
- télévisions
télévisions
85,622 corpus weight
What this shows « tuberculose » 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 | tuberculose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.bɛʁ.ky.loz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tuberculose »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around tuberculose (IPA \ty.bɛʁ.ky.loz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,377 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Maladie infectieuse et contagieuse, chronique, des animaux et des humains (zoonose), pouvant atteindre tous les organes, caractérisée par la présence du bacille de Koch.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for tuberculose, with forms such as "tbuerculose", "ttuberculose", and "tubberculose". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tubercules", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tuberculose, spelled T-U-B-E-R-C-U-L-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Maladie infectieuse et contagieuse, chronique, des animaux et des humains (zoonose), pouvant atteindre tous les organes, caractérisée par la présence du bacille de Koch.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tuberculose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En vérité, je ne crois pas qu’il existât dans toute la vallée un individu sain. L’éléphantiasis, la tuberculose et la lymphangite avaient fait là d’incroyables ravages.
– Et, tout de suite, il m’a parlé le langage de ceux qui ont eu maille à partir avec la tuberculose… Je ne sais pas si vous comprenez… Des petits riens… Il m’a demandé si elle avait des cavités ou des points humides…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tbuerculose
- ttuberculose
- tubberculose
- tubecrulose
- tubercculose
- tubercluose
- tubercullose
- tuberculoes
- tuberculosse
- tuberculsoe
- tubercuolse
- tuberrculose
- tuberuclose
- tubreculose
- tuebrculose
- utberculose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tuberculose - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tuberculose", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).