tobe
\ˈtoːbə\
The verdict
“tobe” is uncommon French (frequency #86,254 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,254
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de toben.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tobe · tobe · French
tobe · rank #86,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,254
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tonds
Nearest frequency peer: tonds (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tobe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tissant
tissant
13,750 corpus weight
- tobe
tobe
13,747 corpus weight
- tonds
tonds
13,746 corpus weight
- toreros
toreros
13,745 corpus weight
- torique
torique
13,744 corpus weight
- toss
toss
13,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tobe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tobe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtoːbə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tobe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tobe is uncommon French at frequency #86,254 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtoːbə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tobe in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tobe, spelled T-O-B-E.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de toben.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de toben.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de toben.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de toben.
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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