Tobie
\tɔ.bi\
The verdict
“Tobie” is uncommon French (frequency #54,297 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,297
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tobie · Tobie · French
Tobie · rank #54,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,297
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tirades
Nearest frequency peer: tirades (-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 « Tobie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thousand
thousand
45,707 corpus weight
- Tijuana
Tijuana
45,706 corpus weight
- tirades
tirades
45,705 corpus weight
- Tobie
Tobie
45,704 corpus weight
- tomme
tomme
45,703 corpus weight
- Tongres
Tongres
45,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tobie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tobie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.bi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tobie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tobie is uncommon French at frequency #54,297 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɔ.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Tobie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tobie, spelled T-O-B-I-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
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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