tuile
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,781
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tuile is aFrenchnoun. It means: Carreau de peu d’épaisseur, fait de terre grasse pétrie, séchée et cuite au four, tantôt plat, tantôt courbé en demi-cylindre, et dont on se sert pour couvrir les maisons, les bâtiments. Pronounced \tɥil\. Often confused with tune and tulle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɥil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tuile is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɥil\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,781 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 tuile, with forms such as "tiule", "ttuile", and "tuiel". 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, "tune", "tulle", "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 tuile, spelled T-U-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carreau de peu d’épaisseur, fait de terre grasse pétrie, séchée et cuite au four, tantôt plat, tantôt courbé en demi-cylindre, et dont on se sert pour couvrir les maisons, les bâtiments.
- 2Morceaux de marbre, de pierre (notamment l'ardoise) ou de bronze, qui peuvent ne pas avoir la même forme mais servent aux mêmes usages que les tuiles de terre cuite.
- 3Élément de matière réfractaire ou fusible à haute température d’un bouclier thermique.
- 4Élément de matière réfractaire ou fusible à haute température d’un bouclier thermique.
- 5Gâteau sec en forme de tuile ronde, moulé à l’aide d’un rouleau à pâtisserie.
- 6Accident, imprévu, que l’on ne peut éviter.
- 7Pièce de jeu plate et rigide, qui recouvre ou forme une partie de la surface de jeu.
- 8Carreau collé formant le carrelage.
- 9Rectangle cliquable d’interface graphique.
- 10Million (d’argent), brique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tiule,ttuile,tuiel,tuille,tulie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tuile"
Frequency rank: #28,781 in French
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