tois
\ˈtoː.is\
The verdict
“tois” is uncommon French (frequency #94,340 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,340
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé défini de l’indicatif du verbe teiñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tois · tois · French
tois · rank #94,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,340
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tini
Nearest frequency peer: tini (-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 « tois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thrill
thrill
5,665 corpus weight
- Thérouanne
Thérouanne
5,663 corpus weight
- tini
tini
5,662 corpus weight
- tois
tois
5,661 corpus weight
- trampolines
trampolines
5,657 corpus weight
- travestit
travestit
5,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtoː.is\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tois is uncommon French at frequency #94,340 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtoː.is\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé défini de l’indicatif du verbe teiñ.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tois, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 tois, spelled T-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé défini de l’indicatif du verbe teiñ.
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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