tulipe

/\ty.lip\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,629

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

tulipe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante de la famille des liliacées, à racine bulbeuse, à tige haute, qui porte une belle fleur et dont il existe un très grand nombre de variétés. Pronounced \ty.lip\. Often confused with tulle and tulipes.

Key facts for tulipe
PropertyValue
Headwordtulipe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ty.lip\
Letters6
Frequency rank#36,629
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tulipe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tulipe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ty.lip\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,629 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tulipe, with forms such as "tluipe", "ttulipe", and "tuilpe". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tulle", "tulipes", "tuile", 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 tulipe, spelled T-U-L-I-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante de la famille des liliacées, à racine bulbeuse, à tige haute, qui porte une belle fleur et dont il existe un très grand nombre de variétés.
  2. 2
    Fleur de cette plante.
  3. 3
    Verre à boire qui a la forme de cette fleur. Verre tulipe
  4. 4
    Sorte de petit globe que l’on adapte à une lampe, à une ampoule électrique.
  5. 5
    Sonde positionnée dans le col utérin, permettant la réalisation d’une hystérographie.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: tluipe,ttulipe,tuilpe,tuliep,tulippe,tullipe,tulpie,utlipe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tulipe

Misspelling Variants of "tulipe"

tluipe6ttulipe7tuilpe6tuliep6tulippe7tullipe7tulpie6utlipe6
Misspelling Variants of "tulipe"

Frequency rank: #36,629 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tulipe"?
"tulipe" is spelled T-U-L-I-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ty.lip\.
What does "tulipe" mean?
As a noun, "tulipe" means: Plante de la famille des liliacées, à racine bulbeuse, à tige haute, qui porte une belle fleur et dont il existe un très grand nombre de variétés.
What words are commonly confused with "tulipe"?
"tulipe" is commonly confused with "tulle", "tulipes", "tuile". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tulipe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tulipe" is \ty.lip\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tulipe" come from?
"tulipe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.