tutelle
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,317
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
tutelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Autorité donnée conformément à la loi, pour avoir soin de la personne et des biens d’un mineur ou d’un majeur protégé (autrefois, d’un interdit). Pronounced \ty.tɛl\. It ranks #8,317 in French word frequency. Often confused with telle and tulle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tutelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tutelle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ty.tɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,317 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tutelle, with forms such as "ttuelle", "ttutelle", and "tuetlle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "telle", "tulle", "truelle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tutelle, spelled T-U-T-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Autorité donnée conformément à la loi, pour avoir soin de la personne et des biens d’un mineur ou d’un majeur protégé (autrefois, d’un interdit).
- 2Tutelle administrative : forme de contrôle exercé par une personne morale de droit public sur une autre personne morale publique ou sur certains organismes privés.
- 3Lien de dépendance entre un ministère et des secrétariats d’État, les moyens du second provenant du premier, qui a autorité sur le second.
- 4Relation entre un domaine d’activité et l’administration qui la régule ou la soutient.
- 5Protection.
- 6Administration d'un territoire ou d'un peuple ; protectorat ; colonisation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ttuelle,ttutelle,tuetlle,tutele,tutelel,tutlele,tuttelle,uttelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tutelle
Misspelling Variants of "tutelle"
Frequency rank: #8,317 in French
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Nearby French words
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