tuner
\ty.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“tuner” is uncommon French (frequency #55,662 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,662
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équipement destiné à convertir les ondes hertziennes en signaux audio ou vidéo, syntoniseur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuner · tuner · French
tuner · rank #55,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,662
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TXT
Nearest frequency peer: TXT (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tuner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trombones
trombones
44,342 corpus weight
- Trévoux
Trévoux
44,341 corpus weight
- tuner
tuner
44,339 corpus weight
- TXT
TXT
44,338 corpus weight
- tzigane
tzigane
44,337 corpus weight
- utilités
utilités
44,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tuner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tuner is uncommon French at frequency #55,662 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ty.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Équipement destiné à convertir les ondes hertziennes en signaux audio ou vidéo, syntoniseur.".
tuner doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tuner, spelled T-U-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Équipement destiné à convertir les ondes hertziennes en signaux audio ou vidéo, syntoniseur.
Synonyms
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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