tome

\tom\

/\tom\/ noun

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The verdict

“tome” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,801. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,801
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division intellectuelle d’un ouvrage, correspondant ou pas avec un volume.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tome · tome · French

tome · rank #2,801 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,801
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH suicide

Nearest frequency peer: suicide (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tome »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tome » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tome vs ton
50% similar
tome vs top
50% similar
tome vs tué
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tome
PropertyValue
Headwordtome
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tom\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,801
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tome »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tomese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « suicide » (#2,800), « sommeil » (#2,799), « salles » (#2,798). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tome » est au #2,801. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around tome (IPA \tom\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,801 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tome, with forms such as "otme", "tmoe", and "toem". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ton", "top", "tué", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 tome, spelled T-O-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Division intellectuelle d’un ouvrage, correspondant ou pas avec un volume.
  2. 2
    Volume séparé qui fait partie d’un ouvrage imprimé ou manuscrit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’ai fait relier deux tomes en un volume.
  2. Tome. Terme que l’on confond bien souvent avec le mot volume et dont la confusion va toujours en s’accentuant dans la librairie française en raison de l’emploi de ces deux termes l’un pour l’autre. — Le tome est à proprement dit une partie achevée d’un ouvrage tandis que le volume est la section matérielle du même ouvrage. Ainsi on dira un ouvrage en 6 to…

This word in other languages

tome(English)tomo(Español)Band(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otme
  • tmoe
  • toem
  • tomme
  • ttome

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tome - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

otme2tmoe2toem2tomme1ttome1
Edit distance from "tome"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tome"?
"tome" is spelled T-O-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tom\.
What does "tome" mean?
As a noun, "tome" means: Division intellectuelle d’un ouvrage, correspondant ou pas avec un volume.
What words are commonly confused with "tome"?
"tome" is commonly confused with "ton", "top", "tué". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tome"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tome" is \tom\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tome" come from?
"tome" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tome", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list