tuo
\ˈtyː.o\
The verdict
“tuo” is uncommon French (frequency #70,289 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,289
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de duo par durcissement (d → t).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuo · tuo · French
tuo · rank #70,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,289
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trouveriez
Nearest frequency peer: trouveriez (-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 « tuo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- triviales
triviales
29,715 corpus weight
- tropisme
tropisme
29,714 corpus weight
- trouveriez
trouveriez
29,713 corpus weight
- tuo
tuo
29,712 corpus weight
- téléconfére…
téléconférence
29,710 corpus weight
- UAE
UAE
29,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtyː.o\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tuo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tuo is uncommon French at frequency #70,289 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtyː.o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de duo par durcissement (d → t).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tuo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tuo, spelled T-U-O.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de duo par durcissement (d → t).
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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