tué
\tɥe\
The verdict
“tué” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,543) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,543
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme, ou garçon, décédé par fait de violence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tue · tué · French
tué · rank #1,543 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,543
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triste
Nearest frequency peer: triste (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tué »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- soldats
soldats
98,460 corpus weight
- triste
triste
98,459 corpus weight
- tué
tué
98,458 corpus weight
- twitter
twitter
98,457 corpus weight
- Vert
Vert
98,456 corpus weight
- vide
vide
98,455 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tué » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | tué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɥe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tué »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tué is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "ty", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tɥe\. Frequency #1,543 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Homme, ou garçon, décédé par fait de violence.".
tué doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "ty", "tx", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tué, spelled T-U-É.
Definition
- 1Homme, ou garçon, décédé par fait de violence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toujours positionnés sur leur ligne, les héros ne reculent jamais devant l'ennemi. Entre le 23 et le 25 mai 1940, le 6ᵉ RSA perd 99 spahis à Sy, parmi lesquels figurent des tués tels que Saïd Ben Dechina, Mohamed Djoudi, les admirables Hamadi et Lambarek…
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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