tobi
\to.bi\
The verdict
“tobi” is uncommon French (frequency #74,430 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,430
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue chuuk parlée à Tobi aux Palaos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tobi · tobi · French
tobi · rank #74,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,430
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tiaret
Nearest frequency peer: Tiaret (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tobi”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- thee
thee
25,574 corpus weight
- thermomix
thermomix
25,573 corpus weight
- Tiaret
Tiaret
25,572 corpus weight
- tobi
tobi
25,571 corpus weight
- tortueuse
tortueuse
25,570 corpus weight
- tota
tota
25,569 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tobi” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tobi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to.bi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “tobi” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
tobi is uncommon French at frequency #74,430 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \to.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue chuuk parlée à Tobi aux Palaos.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tobi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tobi, spelled T-O-B-I.
Definition
- 1Langue chuuk parlée à Tobi aux Palaos.
This word in other languages
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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