# tolerance

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/ · frequency rank #6,530

## Definitions
1. The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
2. The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
3. The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
4. The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
5. The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English toleraunce, borrowed from Old French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerāns, present participle of, and participial adjective from Latin tolerō (“to endure”).

## Easily confused with
- **tolerate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolerance-vs-tolerate)
- **tolerant** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolerance-vs-tolerant)
- **tolerances** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolerance-vs-tolerances)
- **tolerable** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolerable-vs-tolerance)

## Common misspellings (14)
`otlerance`, `tloerance`, `toelrance`, `tolearnce`, `toleracne`, `tolerancce`, `toleranec`, `tolerannce`, `tolerence`, `tolernace`, `tolerrance`, `tollerance`, `tolreance`, `ttolerance`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tolerance