tunnel
French, noun/ty.nɛl/
tunnel is spelled T-U-N-N-E-L (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,648th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tunnel is a French masculine noun meaning “tunnel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voie souterraine percée à travers une montagne, une colline, établie sous une rivière, etc”.
What does tunnel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetunnel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Voie souterraine percée à travers une montagne, une colline, établie sous une rivière, etc. 2. Trou noir, période de difficultés. 3. Tirade ou monologue interminable et inextricable. 4. Serre basse en matière plastique soutenue par des arceaux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tunnel
- tunnels plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tunnel?
- /ty.nɛl/
- \ty.nɛl\
- [ɛ̃ ty.nɛl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tunnel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tunnel in French?
tunnel appears 13 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).