Tobago
\to.ba.ɡo\
The verdict
“Tobago” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,619
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de la mer des Caraïbes située au sud des Antilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tobago · Tobago · French
Tobago · rank #36,619 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,619
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timor
Nearest frequency peer: timor (-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 « Tobago »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ternir
ternir
63,385 corpus weight
- till
till
63,384 corpus weight
- timor
timor
63,383 corpus weight
- Tobago
Tobago
63,382 corpus weight
- tolérés
tolérés
63,381 corpus weight
- toxicologie
toxicologie
63,379 corpus weight
What this shows « Tobago » 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 | Tobago |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \to.ba.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tobago »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Tobago (IPA \to.ba.ɡo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,619 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Île de la mer des Caraïbes située au sud des Antilles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tobago, with forms such as "otbago", "tboago", and "toabgo". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Togo", "Thiago", "tobacco", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Tobago, spelled T-O-B-A-G-O.
Definition
- 1Île de la mer des Caraïbes située au sud des Antilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tobago appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après la Constitution de l’an III, nos colonies étaient : Saint-Domingue, la Guadeloupe et ses annexes (Marie-Galante, la Désirade, les Saintes, la partie française de Saint-Martin et, il faut l’ajouter, Saint-Barthélemy), la Martinique, Sainte-Lucie, Tobago, la Guyane française ; les Seychelles, des établissements à Madagascar, Rodrigue, l’île de Franc…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otbago
- tboago
- toabgo
- tobaggo
- tobaog
- tobbago
- tobgao
- ttobago
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tobago - 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 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).