tutoiement
\ty.twa.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“tutoiement” is uncommon French (frequency #56,335 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,335
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tutoyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tutoiement · tutoiement · French
tutoiement · rank #56,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,335
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tung
Nearest frequency peer: tung (-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 « tutoiement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tsunamis
tsunamis
43,669 corpus weight
- tuerai
tuerai
43,668 corpus weight
- tung
tung
43,667 corpus weight
- tutoiement
tutoiement
43,666 corpus weight
- téléphonez
téléphonez
43,664 corpus weight
- Tétouan
Tétouan
43,663 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tutoiement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tutoiement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.twa.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tutoiement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tutoiement is uncommon French at frequency #56,335 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ty.twa.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de tutoyer.".
tutoiement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tutoiement, spelled T-U-T-O-I-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de tutoyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tutoiement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1793 est adressée à la Convention nationale une pétition visant à abolir l’usage du vouvoiement au profit du tutoiement. 10 brumaire an 2 républicain.
Chez les français le tutoiement, au moins le tutoiement intime, suit presque immédiatement la possession. Et cela est vrai des jeunes mariées comme des filles publiques.
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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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