tumulte

\ty.mylt\

/\ty.mylt\/ noun

The verdict

“tumulte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,498. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,498
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand mouvement accompagné de désordre et souvent de bruit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tumulte · tumulte · French

tumulte · rank #33,498 · 10 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #33,498
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tsonga

Nearest frequency peer: tsonga (-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 « tumulte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tumulte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tumulte vs tumulus
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tumulte
PropertyValue
Headwordtumulte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ty.mylt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#33,498
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tumulte »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tumultese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tsonga » (#33,497), « turbulence » (#33,499), « trousseau » (#33,496). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tumulte » est au #33,498. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around tumulte (IPA \ty.mylt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,498 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grand mouvement accompagné de désordre et souvent de bruit.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tumulte, with forms such as "tmuulte", "ttumulte", and "tumlute". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tumulus", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tumulte, spelled T-U-M-U-L-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grand mouvement accompagné de désordre et souvent de bruit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tumulte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le bruit dans l’intérieur du château, bruit occasionné par les apprêts de la défense, devint plus considérable, et se changea en tumulte et en clameurs de plus en plus assourdissantes.
  2. Là-haut sa voix tonnante domine souvent les hurlements de la tempête ou le tumulte des combats ; mais ici elle est douce et mélodieuse.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • tmuulte
  • ttumulte
  • tumlute
  • tummulte
  • tumulet
  • tumullte
  • tumultte
  • tumutle
  • tuumlte
  • utmulte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tumulte - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

tmuulte2ttumulte1tumlute2tummulte1tumulet2tumullte1tumultte1tumutle2
Edit distance from "tumulte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tumulte"?
"tumulte" is spelled T-U-M-U-L-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ty.mylt\.
What does "tumulte" mean?
As a noun, "tumulte" means: Grand mouvement accompagné de désordre et souvent de bruit.
What words are commonly confused with "tumulte"?
"tumulte" is commonly confused with "tumulus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tumulte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tumulte" is \ty.mylt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tumulte" come from?
"tumulte" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tumulte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list