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tutoy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tu-toy
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To address by the informal French pronoun tu (“you”).

Transitive verb

Etymology

From French tutoyer.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

tutoys (present, singular) tutoying (participle, present) tutoyed (participle, past) tutoyed (past) tutoie (alternative) tutay (alternative, obsolete)

Synonyms

tutoyer

Questions

What does tutoy mean?
To address by the informal French pronoun tu (“you”).
Where does tutoy come from?
It is traced to French.

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