tuyau
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,630
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
tuyau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tube ou conduit souple ou rigide, de fer, de plomb, de fer-blanc, de terre cuite, de matière plastique, etc. Pronounced \tɥi.jo\. It ranks #8,630 in French word frequency. Often confused with tuyaux and tua.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuyau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɥi.jo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tuyau is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɥi.jo\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,630 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tuyau, with forms such as "ttuyau", "tuayu", and "tuyua". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tuyaux", "tua", "tau", 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 tuyau, spelled T-U-Y-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tube ou conduit souple ou rigide, de fer, de plomb, de fer-blanc, de terre cuite, de matière plastique, etc.
- 2Partie creuse du chaume de graminée.
- 3Bout creux de la plume des oiseaux, de la tige de leur plume.
- 4Conduit auditif.
- 5Renseignement donné aux parieurs sur le gagnant probable.
- 6Gros pli cylindrique qu’on fait à du linge, à une garniture de dentelle, de tulle ou de mousseline.
- 7Toute sorte de renseignement qu’on dit venir de personnes bien informées.
- 8Pénis, sexe de l’homme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ttuyau,tuayu,tuyua,tuyyau,tyuau,utyau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tuyau"
Frequency rank: #8,630 in French
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