tof
\tɔf\
The verdict
“tof” is uncommon French (frequency #63,415 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,415
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chouette, sympathique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tof · tof · French
tof · rank #63,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,415
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH titrant
Nearest frequency peer: titrant (-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 « tof »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tiempo
tiempo
36,589 corpus weight
- timbales
timbales
36,588 corpus weight
- titrant
titrant
36,587 corpus weight
- tof
tof
36,586 corpus weight
- tombante
tombante
36,585 corpus weight
- Tommaso
Tommaso
36,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tof » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tof » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tof is uncommon French at frequency #63,415 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɔf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chouette, sympathique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tof, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 tof, spelled T-O-F.
Definition
- 1Chouette, sympathique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tof appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait flashé sur ses gros seins et lui avait proposé de boire un verre chez Line et Willy, un tof café des Marolles, encore un des rares qui sentent le chapeau boule et la gueuze Mort subite.
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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