tuer
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,426
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tuer is aFrenchverb. It means: Ôter la vie d’une manière violente ; ne se dit pas quand il s’agit d'une euthanasie, ni à la forme pronominale dans le cas d’une mort accidentelle par noyade, étouffement ou empoisonnement : on emp... Pronounced \tɥe\. It ranks #1,426 in French word frequency. Often confused with Tyr and tus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɥe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tuer is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɥe\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,426 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tuer, with forms such as "teur", "ttuer", and "tuerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tyr", "tus", "tun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tuer, spelled T-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ôter la vie d’une manière violente ; ne se dit pas quand il s’agit d'une euthanasie, ni à la forme pronominale dans le cas d’une mort accidentelle par noyade, étouffement ou empoisonnement : on emploie alors se noyer, s’étouffer, s’empoisonner.
- 2Provoquer une mort violente par accident ; provoquer une mort naturelle en parlant des maladies.
- 3Causer la mort.
- 4Fatiguer excessivement le corps, altérer la santé.
- 5Incommoder, provoquer une forte émotion le plus souvent négative, comme la colère, et parfois positive, comme le rire.
- 6Faire disparaitre ; anéantir.
- 7Détruire l’effet d’une chose.
- 8Dissiper, occuper, en parlant du temps, de la durée.
- 9Se suicider.
- 10(Suivi de la préposition à et d'un infinitif) Se donner beaucoup de peine.
- 11Éteindre en parlant d'une bougie, d'une chandelle. Note : ne s'emploie plus guère que dans tue la chandelle, qui s'utilise encore à la campagne pour signifier éteins la lumière
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: teur,ttuer,tuerr,ture,uter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tuer
Misspelling Variants of "tuer"
Frequency rank: #1,426 in French
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