tommy

\tɔ.mi\

/\tɔ.mi\/ noun

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The verdict

“tommy” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,246. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,246
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat de l’armée britannique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tommy · tommy · French

tommy · rank #9,246 · 6 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,246
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tentant

Nearest frequency peer: tentant (-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 « tommy »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tommy » 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).

tommy vs toy
60% similar
tommy vs Tony
40% similar
tommy vs tory
60% similar

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

Key facts for tommy
PropertyValue
Headwordtommy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔ.mi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,246
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tommy »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tommyse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tentant » (#9,245), « system » (#9,244), « supports » (#9,243). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tommy » est au #9,246. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around tommy (IPA \tɔ.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,246 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Soldat de l’armée britannique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tommy, with forms such as "otmmy", "tmomy", and "tommyy". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "toy", "Tony", "tory", 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. The correct French form is tommy, spelled T-O-M-M-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Soldat de l’armée britannique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. En face de la maison, assis jambes pendantes sur la balustrade du quai, se tenait un soldat anglais, un pitoyable petit tommy jaune.
  2. Fendant la foule, un tommy s’approcha, fit trembler son avant-bras à la hauteur de ses sourcils, posa une question à Gabet. Il parlait avec un accent si particulier que Maillat ne saisit pas ses paroles.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otmmy
  • tmomy
  • tommyy
  • tomy
  • tomym
  • ttommy

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tommy - 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.

otmmy2tmomy2tommyy1tomy1tomym2ttommy1
Edit distance from "tommy"

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 "tommy"?
"tommy" is spelled T-O-M-M-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔ.mi\.
What does "tommy" mean?
As a noun, "tommy" means: Soldat de l’armée britannique.
What words are commonly confused with "tommy"?
"tommy" is commonly confused with "toy", "Tony", "tory". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tommy"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tommy" is \tɔ.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tommy" come from?
"tommy" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list