tunique
\ty.nik\
The verdict
“tunique” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #19,180 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,180
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vêtement de dessous que portaient les Anciens.
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 | tunique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.nik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tunique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tunique is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ty.nik\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,180 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tunique, with forms such as "tnuique", "ttunique", and "tuinque". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "tuque", "turque", "Tunisie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tunique, spelled T-U-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Vêtement de dessous que portaient les Anciens.
- 2Vêtement de femme.
- 3Vêtement que les évêques portent sous leur chasuble, quand ils officient pontificalement.
- 4Vêtement des diacres et des sous-diacres, qu’on nomme aussi dalmatique.
- 5Sorte de veste dont les rois de France étaient revêtus, à leur sacre, sous le manteau royal.
- 6Vêtement d’uniforme que portent les soldats, les collégiens, etc.
- 7Maillot sportif.
- 8Membrane qui enveloppe certaines parties du corps.
- 9Enveloppe d’un bulbe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tnuique,ttunique,tuinque,tuniqeu,tuniqque,tuniuqe,tunnique,tunqiue,utnique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tunique - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “tunique”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-U-N-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ty.nik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tuque” - see the side-by-side comparison. tunique vs tuque
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.