tunique

/\ty.nik\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,180

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

tunique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement de dessous que portaient les Anciens. Pronounced \ty.nik\. Often confused with tuque and turque.

Key facts for tunique
PropertyValue
Headwordtunique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ty.nik\
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,180
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tunique in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tunique is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for tunique, with forms such as "tnuique", "ttunique", and "tuinque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tunique, spelled T-U-N-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vêtement de dessous que portaient les Anciens.
  2. 2
    Vêtement de femme.
  3. 3
    Vêtement que les évêques portent sous leur chasuble, quand ils officient pontificalement.
  4. 4
    Vêtement des diacres et des sous-diacres, qu’on nomme aussi dalmatique.
  5. 5
    Sorte de veste dont les rois de France étaient revêtus, à leur sacre, sous le manteau royal.
  6. 6
    Vêtement d’uniforme que portent les soldats, les collégiens, etc.
  7. 7
    Maillot sportif.
  8. 8
    Membrane qui enveloppe certaines parties du corps.
  9. 9
    Enveloppe d’un bulbe.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: tnuique,ttunique,tuinque,tuniqeu,tuniqque,tuniuqe,tunnique,tunqiue,utnique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tunique

Misspelling Variants of "tunique"

tnuique7ttunique8tuinque7tuniqeu7tuniqque8tuniuqe7tunnique8tunqiue7
Misspelling Variants of "tunique"

Frequency rank: #19,180 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tunique"?
"tunique" is spelled T-U-N-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ty.nik\.
What does "tunique" mean?
As a noun, "tunique" means: Vêtement de dessous que portaient les Anciens.
What words are commonly confused with "tunique"?
"tunique" is commonly confused with "tuque", "turque", "Tunisie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tunique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tunique" is \ty.nik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tunique" come from?
"tunique" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.