tumuli
\ty.my.li\
The verdict
“tumuli” is uncommon French (frequency #93,343 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,343
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tumulus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tumuli · tumuli · French
tumuli · rank #93,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,343
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trouin
Nearest frequency peer: trouin (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tumuli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trigo
trigo
6,662 corpus weight
- trilatérale
trilatérale
6,661 corpus weight
- trouin
trouin
6,660 corpus weight
- tumuli
tumuli
6,658 corpus weight
- téléguidés
téléguidés
6,656 corpus weight
- témoignerait
témoignerait
6,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tumuli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tumuli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.my.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tumuli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tumuli is uncommon French at frequency #93,343 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ty.my.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tumulus.".
tumuli has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tumuli, spelled T-U-M-U-L-I.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tumulus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tumuli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les Saintongeois et les Aunisiens donnent aux tumuli le nom de chirons ou de terriers. » (Hist. des villes de France, par Ar. [Aristide Mathieu] Guilbert ^(dans la base de données Wikidata) [1848].)
Ce petit poignard est d'un type courant dans l'Est parmi le mobilier funéraire des tombes du Bronze. Il suffit de consulter à ce sujet l'ouvrage de Schaeffer sur les tumuli de Haguenau.
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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