tuyère
\tɥi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“tuyère” is uncommon French (frequency #71,159 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,159
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture pratiquée à la partie inférieure et latérale d’un fourneau, et destinée à recevoir le tuyau ou bec des soufflets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tuyere · tuyère · French
tuyère · rank #71,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,159
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH turquoises
Nearest frequency peer: turquoises (-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 « tuyère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tréma
tréma
28,847 corpus weight
- tsigane
tsigane
28,845 corpus weight
- turquoises
turquoises
28,843 corpus weight
- tuyère
tuyère
28,842 corpus weight
- typhoon
typhoon
28,841 corpus weight
- universidad
universidad
28,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tuyère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuyère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɥi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tuyère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tuyère is uncommon French at frequency #71,159 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɥi.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tuyère in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tuyère, spelled T-U-Y-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ouverture pratiquée à la partie inférieure et latérale d’un fourneau, et destinée à recevoir le tuyau ou bec des soufflets.
- 2Conduit d'éjection des gaz dans le cas d'un propulseur à réaction (avion à réaction, fusée).
This word in other languages
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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