tueur
\tɥœʁ\
The verdict
“tueur” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,251 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,251
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui tue, commet un meurtre.
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 | 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) |
Where “tueur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tueur is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tueur, with forms such as "teuur", "ttueur", and "tueru". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tueur, spelled T-U-E-U-R.
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 (्).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: teuur,ttueur,tueru,tueurr,tuuer,uteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tueur - 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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Using “tueur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-U-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɥœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tuez” - see the side-by-side comparison. tueur vs tuez
- 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.