Togo
\to.ɡo\
The verdict
“Togo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,492
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest ayant des frontières communes avec le Bénin à l’est, le Burkina Faso au nord, et le Ghana à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Lomé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-togo · Togo · French
Togo · rank #12,492 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,492
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH théâtres
Nearest frequency peer: théâtres (-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 « Togo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- séjours
séjours
87,512 corpus weight
- talk
talk
87,511 corpus weight
- théâtres
théâtres
87,510 corpus weight
- Togo
Togo
87,509 corpus weight
- touriste
touriste
87,508 corpus weight
- Tristan
Tristan
87,507 corpus weight
What this shows « Togo » 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 | Togo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \to.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Togo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Togo (IPA \to.ɡo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,492 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest ayant des frontières communes avec le Bénin à l’est, le Burkina Faso au nord, et le Ghana à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Lomé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Togo, with forms such as "otgo", "tgoo", and "toggo". 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, "toi", "ton", "top", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Togo, spelled T-O-G-O.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest ayant des frontières communes avec le Bénin à l’est, le Burkina Faso au nord, et le Ghana à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Lomé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Togo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre 2011 et 2022, le Togo a ainsi patiemment éliminé la maladie du sommeil, deux maladies parasitaires – celle du ver de Guinée et la filariose lymphatique –, ainsi que le trachome, une maladie infectieuse de l’œil due à une bactérie.
Sa sœur, me répondit-il, venait de se fiancer ; son frère aîné — depuis longtemps marié, dont il ne parlait jamais — allait partir pour le Togo ; en annonçant à sa mère que lui aussi il préméditait de la quitter, il lui porterait un coup fatal.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otgo
- tgoo
- toggo
- toog
- ttogo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Togo - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).