tolerance
\tɔlɛrantsɛ\
The verdict
“tolerance” is uncommon French (frequency #65,574 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,574
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tolérance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tolerance · tolerance · French
tolerance · rank #65,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,574
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tolisso
Nearest frequency peer: Tolisso (+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 « tolerance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tinrent
tinrent
34,431 corpus weight
- tiraillemen…
tiraillements
34,430 corpus weight
- tolerance
tolerance
34,427 corpus weight
- Tolisso
Tolisso
34,426 corpus weight
- torrides
torrides
34,424 corpus weight
- torréfaction
torréfaction
34,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tolerance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tolerance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔlɛrantsɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tolerance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tolerance is uncommon French at frequency #65,574 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔlɛrantsɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tolérance.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tolerance, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tolerance, spelled T-O-L-E-R-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Tolérance.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).