Which to use
“tun” and “tunes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,414
- “tun” frequency rank
- #31,290
- “tunes” frequency rank
- 80704
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tun | tunes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Craie glauconieuse. | Pluriel de tune. |
Same sound, different letters: tun vs tunes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - tun / tunes
This is the hard kind. tun and tunes are pronounced identically (\tyn\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “tun” sits inside “tunes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80704, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tun is recorded at frequency rank #49,414, classified as anoun, pronounced \tyn\. tunes is at rank #31,290, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tyn\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 80704, this pair ranks #20,348 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of tun vs tunes
Shared letters: ntu. Private to "tun": -. Private to "tunes": es.
"tun" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "tunes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- tunes ← tnues · ttunes · tuens · tuness · tunnes · tunse · utnes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tun" and "tunes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "tun" or "tunes" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "tun" / "tunes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "tun" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tunes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #20,348 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tun" and "tunes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tif vs tun". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #20,348 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.