til
The verdict
“til” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,835) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,835
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tilleul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-til · til · French
til · rank #25,835 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,835
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tirailleurs
Nearest frequency peer: tirailleurs (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « til »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Tanguy
Tanguy
74,169 corpus weight
- tapage
tapage
74,168 corpus weight
- til
til
74,166 corpus weight
- tirailleurs
tirailleurs
74,165 corpus weight
- TITO
TITO
74,164 corpus weight
- Tobias
Tobias
74,163 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « til » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | til |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « til »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for til is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #25,835 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for til in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is til, spelled T-I-L.
Definition
- 1Tilleul.
- 2Écorce de tilleul.
- 3Couleur du bois de tilleul.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).