tofu
\to.fu\
The verdict
“tofu” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,712
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâte blanche peu odorante, issue du caillage du lait de soja.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tofu · tofu · French
tofu · rank #23,712 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,712
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toby
Nearest frequency peer: toby (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tofu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tibia
tibia
76,292 corpus weight
- tit
tit
76,291 corpus weight
- toby
toby
76,290 corpus weight
- tofu
tofu
76,289 corpus weight
- totem
totem
76,288 corpus weight
- transportent
transportent
76,286 corpus weight
What this shows « tofu » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tofu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to.fu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tofu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tofu (IPA \to.fu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,712 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pâte blanche peu odorante, issue du caillage du lait de soja.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tofu, with forms such as "otfu", "tfou", and "toffu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "toi", "ton", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 tofu, spelled T-O-F-U.
Definition
- 1Pâte blanche peu odorante, issue du caillage du lait de soja.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tofu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dit autrement, le gueuleton bien arrosé du bon vivant, amateur de viande et de cigare, n’a pas son équivalent chez l’adepte de la graine germée et du tofu mariné à la sauce soja.
Par exemple, le tofu… Ah, mon père aime acheter le genre de tofu qui a le goût de sa région d’origine, on en fait souvent à la maison.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otfu
- tfou
- toffu
- touf
- ttofu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tofu - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).