tonne
/tʌn/noun
tonne is spelled T-O-N-N-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “ton vs tonne” about 8,100 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, tonne means “A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tonne is tonnes.
How many letters and syllables are in tonne?
| Letters | 5: T-O-N-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tonne?
Tonne appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tonne?
- UK /tʌn/
- UK /tʊn/
- UK /tɒn/
Tonne has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tonne.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tonne
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: ton, tun (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: t.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with tonne?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tonne from its last stressed vowel (/ʌn/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tenon, tenno, nonet.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tonne
- tonnes plural
- t
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tonne mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tonne come from?
From French tonne. Doublet of ton and tun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).