ton
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#127
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ton is aFrenchdet. It means: Déterminant possessif dont le possesseur est la deuxième personne du singulier et le possédé est masculin singulier. Pronounced \tɔ̃\. It ranks #127 in French word frequency. Often confused with tu and TV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Det |
| IPA | \tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ton is 3 letters long, classified as adet, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #127 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ton in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "TS", 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 ton, spelled T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déterminant possessif dont le possesseur est la deuxième personne du singulier et le possédé est masculin singulier.
- 2Déterminant possessif dont le possesseur est la deuxième personne du singulier et le possédé est féminin singulier. Forme supplétive de ta utilisée pour effectuer une liaison obligatoire avec le mot suivant qui commence par une voyelle ou un h muet.
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Frequency rank: #127 in French
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