tuteur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,926
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
tuteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui à qui la tutelle est confiée. Pronounced \ty.tœʁ\. Often confused with tutu and tuteurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tuteur is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ty.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,926 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tuteur, with forms such as "ttuteur", "tuetur", and "tuteru". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "tutu", "tuteurs", "tuer", 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 tuteur, spelled T-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui à qui la tutelle est confiée.
- 2Celui qui est responsable d’une activité de tutorat auprès d’élèves ou d’étudiants.
- 3Perche qu’on met en terre à côté d’un jeune arbre, d’une plante et à laquelle on les attache pour les soutenir ou pour les redresser.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ttuteur,tuetur,tuteru,tuteurr,tutteur,tutuer,utteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tuteur
Misspelling Variants of "tuteur"
Frequency rank: #13,926 in French
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Nearby French words
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