tuyaux
\tɥi.jo\
The verdict
“tuyaux” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,758
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tuyau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuyaux · tuyaux · French
tuyaux · rank #9,758 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,758
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trip
Nearest frequency peer: trip (-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 « tuyaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- thérèse
thérèse
90,246 corpus weight
- tranquillité
tranquillité
90,245 corpus weight
- trip
trip
90,244 corpus weight
- tuyaux
tuyaux
90,243 corpus weight
- tél
tél
90,242 corpus weight
- university
university
90,241 corpus weight
What this shows « tuyaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuyaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɥi.jo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tuyaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tuyaux (IPA \tɥi.jo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,758 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tuyau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tuyaux, with forms such as "ttuyaux", "tuayux", and "tuyauxx". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "taux", "tuyau", "totaux", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tuyaux, spelled T-U-Y-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tuyau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tuyaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et maintenant que les tuyaux sont pleins, que les cuves sont remplies à ras bord de vin rouge, ces commerçants avisés semblent être devenus beaucoup plus tatillons sur leurs achats.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ttuyaux
- tuayux
- tuyauxx
- tuyaxu
- tuyuax
- tuyyaux
- tyuaux
- utyaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tuyaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tuyaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).