turlupinade
\tyʁ.ly.pi.nad\
The verdict
“turlupinade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de farce grossière jouée par les trois acteurs Turlupin, Gros-Guillaume et Gaultier-Garguille en France au XVIIᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turlupinade · turlupinade · French
turlupinade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | turlupinade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.ly.pi.nad\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
turlupinade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tyʁ.ly.pi.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
turlupinade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is turlupinade, spelled T-U-R-L-U-P-I-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de farce grossière jouée par les trois acteurs Turlupin, Gros-Guillaume et Gaultier-Garguille en France au XVIIᵉ siècle.
- 2Plaisanterie vulgaire, mauvais jeu de mots.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turlupinade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'homme au nez pointu, qui paraissait être le chef de ce trio, c'est-à-dire Legrand, c'est-à-dire Turlupin, reprit : " … Pour assister à nos turlupinades, il en coûtera à chacun deux sols six deniers.
Sur ce qu’il répétait toujours, « Je veux être tondu si j’avance rien de faux », le père Garasse, dont on connaît le style grossier et les turlupinades, lui répliquait : « Oui, vous serez tondu, et c’est moi qui serai votre barbier ».
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.