toile
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,299
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
toile is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tissu d'armure simple, de fils de lin, de chanvre, de coton, etc. Pronounced \twal\. It ranks #3,299 in French word frequency. Often confused with tome and toit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \twal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for toile is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \twal\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,299 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for toile, with forms such as "otile", "tiole", and "toiel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tome", "toit", "tôle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is toile, spelled T-O-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tissu d'armure simple, de fils de lin, de chanvre, de coton, etc.
- 2Treillis métallique d’un crible ou d'un tamis.
- 3Écran de tissu blanc tendu qui permet la projection de films.
- 4Film.
- 5Châssis tendu de toile sur laquelle on peint.
- 6Tableau peint sur cette toile.
- 7Toile verticale sur laquelle sont représentés les derniers plans du décor.
- 8Voiles.
- 9Grands filets que l’on tend, en forme de parc, pour prendre des sangliers, des cerfs, des biches, des chevreuils, etc.
- 10Draps.
- 11Traduction littérale du mot anglais Web (toile, toile d'araignée) désignant l'hypermédia public fonctionnant sur l'internet et permettant de consulter les pages mises en ligne dans des sites.
- 12Toile d'araignée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otile,tiole,toiel,toille,tolie,ttoile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toile
Misspelling Variants of "toile"
Frequency rank: #3,299 in French
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