turluter
\tyʁ.ly.te\
The verdict
“turluter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pousser son cri, en parlant de l’alouette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turluter · turluter · French
turluter · 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 | turluter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tyʁ.ly.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « turluter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
turluter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tyʁ.ly.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
turluter has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is turluter, spelled T-U-R-L-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pousser son cri, en parlant de l’alouette.
- 2Imiter le chant du turlut.
- 3Contrefaire la musique du flageolet.
- 4Pratiquer le yodel : un genre de chant ouvrier canadien-français de l’entre-deux guerres, notamment popularisé par La Bolduc.
- 5Faire une fellation, une turlute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turluter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les alouettes ne cesseront donc jamais de turluter dans la hauteur, à l’aplomb du monument aux morts ?
Les ronflements des deux braves épuisés couvrirent une fois encore le cri de l'alouette qui turlute, de la bécasse qui croûte, de la bécassine qui croule, de la buse qui piaule, du butor qui butit, […], de la marmotte qui siffle, et bien d'autres bruissements d'animaux qu'il serait une fois encore trop long d'énumérer ici...
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.