tuer
\tɥe\
The verdict
“tuer” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,426 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #1,426
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
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 | 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) |
Where “tuer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tuer is 4 letters long, classified as a verb, 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 generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tuer, with forms such as "teur", "ttuer", and "tuerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tyr", "tus", "tun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 tuer, spelled T-U-E-R.
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
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: teur,ttuer,tuerr,ture,uter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tuer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “tuer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-U-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɥe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Tyr” - see the side-by-side comparison. tuer vs Tyr
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.