tuner

\ty.nɛʁ\

/\ty.nɛʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tuner
PropertyValue
Headwordtuner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ty.nɛʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#55,662
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tuner » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tunertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « TXT » (#55,663), « Trévoux » (#55,660), « tzigane » (#55,664). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tuner » est au #55,662. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Équipement 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tuner"?
"tuner" is spelled T-U-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ty.nɛʁ\.
What does "tuner" mean?
As a noun, "tuner" means: Équipement destiné à convertir les ondes hertziennes en signaux audio ou vidéo, syntoniseur.
How do you pronounce "tuner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tuner" is \ty.nɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tuner" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list