Thomson
\tɔm.sɔn\
The verdict
“Thomson” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,606
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien groupe français spécialisé dans les équipements de production et de distribution d'électricité, puis dans la fabrication de matériels électroniques et audiovisuels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thomson · Thomson · French
Thomson · rank #18,606 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,606
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TC
Nearest frequency peer: TC (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Thomson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sécurisation
sécurisation
81,398 corpus weight
- tanger
tanger
81,397 corpus weight
- TC
TC
81,396 corpus weight
- Thomson
Thomson
81,395 corpus weight
- thorax
thorax
81,394 corpus weight
- tonalité
tonalité
81,393 corpus weight
What this shows « Thomson » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Thomson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɔm.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Thomson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Thomson (IPA \tɔm.sɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,606 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancien groupe français spécialisé dans les équipements de production et de distribution d'électricité, puis dans la fabrication de matériels électroniques et audiovisuels.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Thomson, with forms such as "htomson", "thhomson", and "thmoson". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "toison", "thompson", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Thomson, spelled T-H-O-M-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ancien groupe français spécialisé dans les équipements de production et de distribution d'électricité, puis dans la fabrication de matériels électroniques et audiovisuels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thomson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour s’en tenir à l’exécutif d’A.G.I.R., on y trouve un ex-directeur général adjoint d’Usinor, un ex-directeur général d’Air Total, un ex-directeur financier d’une filiale de Thomson, un directeur général de la banque Martin-Maurel ou encore un ex-directeur général de la branche ingénierie nucléaire de Framatome.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htomson
- thhomson
- thmoson
- thommson
- thomosn
- thomsno
- thomsonn
- thomsson
- thosmon
- tohmson
- tthomson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Thomson - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).