tulle
\tyl\
The verdict
“tulle” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,877. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,877
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu mince, léger et transparent, en coton, soie ou matière synthétique, qui s’emploie pour réaliser des rideaux, des voilages, des toilettes raffinées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tulle · tulle · French
tulle · rank #20,877 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,877
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tremper
Nearest frequency peer: tremper (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tulle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traitait
traitait
79,127 corpus weight
- transat
transat
79,126 corpus weight
- tremper
tremper
79,125 corpus weight
- tulle
tulle
79,124 corpus weight
- tweeté
tweeté
79,123 corpus weight
- twilight
twilight
79,122 corpus weight
What this shows « tulle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tulle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tulle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tulle (IPA \tyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,877 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tissu mince, léger et transparent, en coton, soie ou matière synthétique, qui s’emploie pour réaliser des rideaux, des voilages, des toilettes raffinées.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tulle, with forms such as "tlule", "ttulle", and "tule". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tune", "tuque", "turtle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tulle, spelled T-U-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tissu mince, léger et transparent, en coton, soie ou matière synthétique, qui s’emploie pour réaliser des rideaux, des voilages, des toilettes raffinées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tulle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et cependant les sabots garnis de dentelles découvraient admirablement ses bras nus, la gorge s'encadrait dans le pur corsage aux tulles jaunis, aux rubans passés, qui n'avait serré que bien peu les charmes évanouis de la tante.
… la jolie Mlle Schontz que sa joue en fleur un peu hâlée et sa coiffe alsacienne aux ailes de tulle noir faisaient ressembler à une rose sauvage de Guebwiller ou de Rouge-Goutte sur laquelle se serait posé un papillon…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tlule
- ttulle
- tule
- tulel
- utlle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tulle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).