tomate

/\tɔ.mat\/ noun

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.

Key facts for tomate
PropertyValue
Headwordtomate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔ.mat\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,421
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tomate in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Plante herbacée annuelle dicotylédone, de la famille des Solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses fruits.
  2. 2
    Fruit 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.
  3. 3
    Visage, tête.
  4. 4
    Mélange de pastis avec de la grenadine.
  5. 5
    Rosette, insigne attribuée aux officiers et officières de la Légion d’honneur.
  6. 6
    Jeu de ballon qui consiste à faire passer une balle entre les jambes des adversaires, il est pratiqué par les enfants.
  7. 7
    Légume ressemblant à une tomate verte.
  8. 8
    Concentré de tomates.
  9. 9
    Dollars, dollars canadiens.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

otmate6tmoate6toamte6tomaet6tomatte7tommate7tomtae6ttomate7
Misspelling Variants of "tomate"

Frequency rank: #10,421 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tomate"?
"tomate" is spelled T-O-M-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔ.mat\.
What does "tomate" mean?
As a noun, "tomate" means: Plante herbacée annuelle dicotylédone, de la famille des Solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses fruits.
What words are commonly confused with "tomate"?
"tomate" is commonly confused with "tome", "toute", "tombé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tomate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tomate" is \tɔ.mat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tomate" come from?
"tomate" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.