toise
\twaz\
The verdict
“toise” is uncommon French (frequency #55,648 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,648
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne unité de mesure (symbole : T), longue de six pieds, soit environ de 1,5 à 2 mètres selon la valeur du pied. Utilisée en France sous l'Ancien Régime, basée sur le pied de Paris, elle mesure...
Corpus desk
Index FR-toise · toise · French
toise · rank #55,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,648
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tiendraient
Nearest frequency peer: tiendraient (-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 « toise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Theron
Theron
44,356 corpus weight
- tide
tide
44,355 corpus weight
- tiendraient
tiendraient
44,354 corpus weight
- toise
toise
44,353 corpus weight
- tore
tore
44,352 corpus weight
- tors
tors
44,351 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \twaz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toise is uncommon French at frequency #55,648 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \twaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for toise, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is toise, spelled T-O-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne unité de mesure (symbole : T), longue de six pieds, soit environ de 1,5 à 2 mètres selon la valeur du pied. Utilisée en France sous l'Ancien Régime, basée sur le pied de Paris, elle mesure 1,949 mètre.
- 2Tige graduée qui sert à mesurer la taille des personnes.
- 3Raclée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how toise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce moment, le corsaire, qui arrivait avec une vitesse désespérante, répondit par un coup de canon dont le boulet vint expirer à dix toises du Saint Ferdinand.
Ils arrivèrent bientôt à un enfoncement qui paraissait assez spacieux et qui se trouvait à quelques toises plus bas que l’endroit où ils s’étaient arrêtés d’abord.
This word in other languages
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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