tones
/təʊnz/
"tones" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tones” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,297
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of tone
Corpus desk
Index EN-tones · tones · English
tones · rank #10,297 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,297
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tina
Nearest frequency peer: Tina (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “tones”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tightly
tightly
89,706 corpus weight
- Tina
Tina
89,705 corpus weight
- tones
tones
89,704 corpus weight
- Tories
Tories
89,703 corpus weight
- transplant
transplant
89,702 corpus weight
- traps
traps
89,701 corpus weight
What this shows “tones” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tones |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /təʊnz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tones”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tones (IPA /təʊnz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,297 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of tone".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tones, with forms such as "otnes", "tnoes", and "toens". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TOS", "Tony", "tons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is tones, spelled T-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of tone
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otnes
- tnoes
- toens
- toness
- tonnes
- tonse
- ttones
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tones - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tones", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).