tonalité
\tɔ.na.li.te\
The verdict
“tonalité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,608
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Caractère d’un ton, d’un morceau écrit dans un ton déterminé.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.na.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tonalité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tonalité (IPA \tɔ.na.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,608 among 164,488 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tonalité, with forms such as "otnalité", "tnoalité", and "toanlité". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "totalité", "tonalités", "ténacité", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tonalité, spelled T-O-N-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère d’un ton, d’un morceau écrit dans un ton déterminé.
- 2Nuance de couleur.
- 3Nuance.
- 4Signal sonore qu’un central téléphonique émet à l’attention de l’utilisateur du téléphone pour fournir au correspondant une information.
- 5Caractère d’une couleur associé à la couleur qui produit sur l’œil une sensation lumineuse de niveau élevé.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otnalité,tnoalité,toanlité,tonailté,tonalite,tonalitté,tonaliét,tonallité,tonaltié,tonlaité,tonnalité,ttonalité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tonalité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “tonalité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-N-A-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɔ.na.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “totalité” - see the side-by-side comparison. tonalité vs totalité
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.