toises
\twaz\
The verdict
“toises” is uncommon French (frequency #83,440 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,440
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de toise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toises · toises · French
toises · rank #83,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,440
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tombereaux
Nearest frequency peer: tombereaux (+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 « toises »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thénardier
Thénardier
16,565 corpus weight
- Théodule
Théodule
16,564 corpus weight
- tibétaines
tibétaines
16,563 corpus weight
- toises
toises
16,561 corpus weight
- tombereaux
tombereaux
16,560 corpus weight
- Torquemada
Torquemada
16,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toises » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \twaz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toises is uncommon French at frequency #83,440 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \twaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de toise.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for toises in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 toises, spelled T-O-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de toise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how toises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette ville, située à une altitude de mille toises sur le revers oriental des Rocheuses, au bord d’un torrent tributaire du Missouri, forme un vaste entrepôt pour les produits miniers de la région, et compte de quatorze à quinze mille habitants.
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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