toby
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "toby", 4-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "toby" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "toby" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
toby is aEnglishnoun. It means: A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug. Often confused with Ty and too.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toby |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for toby is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,808 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 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 toby, with forms such as "otby", "tboy", and "tobby". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ty", "too", "top", 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 English form is toby, spelled T-O-B-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.
- 2The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
- 3The road or highway.
- 4A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
- 5The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
- 6Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otby,tboy,tobby,tobyy,toyb,ttoby
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toby
Misspelling Variants of "toby"
Frequency rank: #11,808 in English
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