tons
/tʌnz/
The verdict
“tons” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,730. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,730
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de ton.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tons · tons · Spanish
tons · rank #42,730 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,730
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tongo
Nearest frequency peer: tongo (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “tons”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- tiraría
tiraría
57,273 corpus weight
- tongo
tongo
57,272 corpus weight
- tons
tons
57,271 corpus weight
- topográfico
topográfico
57,270 corpus weight
- torturan
torturan
57,269 corpus weight
- transcribir
transcribir
57,268 corpus weight
What this shows “tons” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | tons |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tʌnz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tons”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tons (IPA /tʌnz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,730 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de ton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tons, with forms such as "otns", "tnos", and "tonns". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tus", "top", "tos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is tons, spelled T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de ton.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otns
- tnos
- tonns
- tonss
- tosn
- ttons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).