tutelles
\ty.tel\
The verdict
“tutelles” is uncommon French (frequency #50,557 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,557
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tutelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tutelles · tutelles · French
tutelles · rank #50,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,557
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Turkish
Nearest frequency peer: Turkish (-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 « tutelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trimestriel…
trimestrielles
49,447 corpus weight
- triomphalem…
triomphalement
49,446 corpus weight
- Turkish
Turkish
49,445 corpus weight
- tutelles
tutelles
49,444 corpus weight
- twice
twice
49,443 corpus weight
- téléfilms
téléfilms
49,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tutelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tutelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.tel\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tutelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tutelles is uncommon French at frequency #50,557 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ty.tel\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tutelle.".
tutelles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tutelles, spelled T-U-T-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tutelle.
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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