thons
\tɔ̃\
The verdict
“thons” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,227
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de thon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thons · thons · French
thons · rank #48,227 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,227
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thu
Nearest frequency peer: thu (+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 « thons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tentais
tentais
51,777 corpus weight
- terreaux
terreaux
51,776 corpus weight
- thons
thons
51,774 corpus weight
- thu
thu
51,773 corpus weight
- thug
thug
51,772 corpus weight
- Tiphaine
Tiphaine
51,771 corpus weight
What this shows « thons » 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 | thons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « thons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around thons (IPA \tɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,227 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de thon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for thons, with forms such as "htons", "thhons", and "thnos". 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, "ton", "TNS", "tos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 French form is thons, spelled T-H-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de thon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maquereaux, bonites, thazards, wahoos et thons sont tous membres de la famille des scombridés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htons
- thhons
- thnos
- thonns
- thonss
- thosn
- tohns
- tthons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thons - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "thons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).