turlupin
\tyʁ.ly.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“turlupin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Homme qui fait de basses plaisanteries, de mauvais jeux de mots.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turlupin · turlupin · French
turlupin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turlupin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.ly.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “turlupin” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
turlupin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tyʁ.ly.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for turlupin, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is turlupin, spelled T-U-R-L-U-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Homme qui fait de basses plaisanteries, de mauvais jeux de mots.
- 2Sectes d’hérétiques qui se répandirent en France, en Allemagne et dans les Pays-Bas pendant le XIIIᵉ et le XIVᵉ siècle ; ils soutenaient qu’on ne doit avoir honte de rien de ce qui est naturel.
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