tueur
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,251
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tueur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui tue, commet un meurtre. Pronounced \tɥœʁ\. It ranks #6,251 in French word frequency. Often confused with tuez and tutu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɥœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tueur is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɥœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,251 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tueur, with forms such as "teuur", "ttueur", and "tueru". 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, "tuez", "tutu", "tuque", 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 tueur, spelled T-U-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui tue, commet un meurtre.
- 2Personne qui s’adonne à la chasse par plaisir.
- 3Personne qui tue les animaux de boucherie dans un abattoir.
- 4Signe diacritique représentant une absence de voyelle inhérente, dans l’écriture dévanagari. Il est représenté par un signe souscrit (्).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: teuur,ttueur,tueru,tueurr,tuuer,uteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tueur
Misspelling Variants of "tueur"
Frequency rank: #6,251 in French
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