tutoyer

\ty.twa.je\

/\ty.twa.je\/ verb

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The verdict

“tutoyer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,588
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - User des mots de tu et de toi en parlant à quelqu’un.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tutoyer · tutoyer · French

tutoyer · rank #39,588 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,588
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tubulaire

Nearest frequency peer: tubulaire (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tutoyer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tutoyer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tutoyer vs tutoie
71% similar
tutoyer vs tatouer
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tutoyer
PropertyValue
Headwordtutoyer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ty.twa.je\
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,588
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tutoyer »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tutoyerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tubulaire » (#39,587), « télescopes » (#39,589), « trotte » (#39,586). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tutoyer » est au #39,588. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around tutoyer (IPA \ty.twa.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,588 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tutoyer, with forms such as "ttuoyer", "ttutoyer", and "tuotyer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tutoie", "tatouer", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tutoyer, spelled T-U-T-O-Y-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    User des mots de tu et de toi en parlant à quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    Approcher au plus près, frôler.
  3. 3
    Être très familier avec ; côtoyer ; frôler quelque chose.
  4. 4
    Se faire tutoyer : être copieusement engueulé, se faire passer un savon (à mettre en rapport avec le fait que l’on ne tutoie pas en dialectes wallons car c’est considéré comme excessivement familier voire grossier).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tutoyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. (en réponse à un interlocuteur qui dit "vous") Tu peux me tutoyer.
  2. C’était l’époque des vacances. L’arrivée des enfants la consola. Mais Paul devenait capricieux, et Virginie n’avait plus l’âge d’être tutoyée, ce qui mettait une gêne, une barrière entre elles.

Synonyms

dire « tu »

Antonyms

vouvoyervoussoyer

This word in other languages

thou(English)tutear(Español)duzen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ttuoyer
  • ttutoyer
  • tuotyer
  • tutoeyr
  • tutoyerr
  • tutoyre
  • tutoyyer
  • tuttoyer
  • tutyoer
  • uttoyer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tutoyer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ttuoyer2ttutoyer1tuotyer2tutoeyr2tutoyerr1tutoyre2tutoyyer1tuttoyer1
Edit distance from "tutoyer"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tutoyer"?
"tutoyer" is spelled T-U-T-O-Y-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ty.twa.je\.
What does "tutoyer" mean?
As a verb, "tutoyer" means: User des mots de tu et de toi en parlant à quelqu’un.
What words are commonly confused with "tutoyer"?
"tutoyer" is commonly confused with "tutoie", "tatouer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tutoyer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tutoyer" is \ty.twa.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tutoyer" come from?
"tutoyer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tutoyer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

utopies#39,590Vendéen#39,592vitrage#39,595Walters#39,597

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

trends10 variantsThibaud10 variantssurtaxe10 variantsalignée10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list