ton
[ˈt̪õn]
The verdict
“ton” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,515) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,515
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apócope de tono, que solo tiene uso en las frases familiares "sin ton ni son" y "sin ton y sin son", que significan: sin motivo, ocasión o causa, o fuera de orden y medida. También suele decirse al...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ton · ton · Spanish
ton · rank #21,515 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,515
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tirarse
Nearest frequency peer: tirarse (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “ton”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- tintas
tintas
78,489 corpus weight
- tirados
tirados
78,488 corpus weight
- tirarse
tirarse
78,487 corpus weight
- ton
ton
78,486 corpus weight
- tornillos
tornillos
78,485 corpus weight
- toxicidad
toxicidad
78,484 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ton” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | ton |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪õn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ton”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ton is neighbouring look-alikes ("tú", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈt̪õn]. Frequency #21,515 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Apócope de tono, que solo tiene uso en las frases familiares "sin ton ni son" y "sin ton y sin son", que significan: sin motivo, ocasión o causa, o fuera de orden y medida. También suele decirse al...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ton, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "TV", "ty", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ton, spelled T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Apócope de tono, que solo tiene uso en las frases familiares "sin ton ni son" y "sin ton y sin son", que significan: sin motivo, ocasión o causa, o fuera de orden y medida. También suele decirse alguna vez: ¿A qué ton o a qué son viene eso?
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).