toc
\tɔk\
The verdict
“toc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,684) as an onomatopoeia. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,684
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée servant à exprimer un bruit sec, un choc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toc · toc · French
toc · rank #12,684 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,684
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thibault
Nearest frequency peer: Thibault (-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 « toc »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tango
tango
87,320 corpus weight
- Thibault
Thibault
87,318 corpus weight
- toc
toc
87,317 corpus weight
- tournure
tournure
87,316 corpus weight
- toussaint
toussaint
87,315 corpus weight
- tranquilles
tranquilles
87,314 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « toc » 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 | toc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \tɔk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « toc »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for toc is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anonomatopoeia pronounced \tɔk\. Frequency #12,684 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Onomatopée servant à exprimer un bruit sec, un choc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for toc in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "TS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 toc, spelled T-O-C.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée servant à exprimer un bruit sec, un choc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how toc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il entendit frapper à sa porte : toc, toc.
Il laissa les copains agglutinés autour d'une longue table qui se couvrit instantanément de grosses Primus, et s'installa dans un coin à une table bancale qui faisait toc sur le sol de béton chaque fois qu'il s'y appuyait pour regarder le match de foot Lyon- Monaco que transmettait RFI.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).