tomate
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,421
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
tomate is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante herbacée annuelle dicotylédone, de la famille des Solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses fruits. Pronounced \tɔ.mat\. Often confused with tome and toute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.mat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tomate is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ.mat\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,421 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tomate, with forms such as "otmate", "tmoate", and "toamte". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tome", "toute", "tombé", 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 tomate, spelled T-O-M-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée annuelle dicotylédone, de la famille des Solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses fruits.
- 2Fruit charnu de cette plante, de forme ronde ou allongée, généralement rouge vif ou jaune. C’est l’un des fruits les plus importants dans l’alimentation humaine, se consommant frais ou transformé.
- 3Visage, tête.
- 4Mélange de pastis avec de la grenadine.
- 5Rosette, insigne attribuée aux officiers et officières de la Légion d’honneur.
- 6Jeu de ballon qui consiste à faire passer une balle entre les jambes des adversaires, il est pratiqué par les enfants.
- 7Légume ressemblant à une tomate verte.
- 8Concentré de tomates.
- 9Dollars, dollars canadiens.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otmate,tmoate,toamte,tomaet,tomatte,tommate,tomtae,ttomate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tomate
Misspelling Variants of "tomate"
Frequency rank: #10,421 in French
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