tonds
\tɔ̃\
The verdict
“tonds” is uncommon French (frequency #86,255 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,255
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de tondre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonds · tonds · French
tonds · rank #86,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tobe
Nearest frequency peer: tobe (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tonds »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tissant
tissant
13,750 corpus weight
- tobe
tobe
13,747 corpus weight
- tonds
tonds
13,746 corpus weight
- toreros
toreros
13,745 corpus weight
- torique
torique
13,744 corpus weight
- toss
toss
13,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonds » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonds » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonds is uncommon French at frequency #86,255 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tonds, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tonds, spelled T-O-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de tondre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de tondre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de tondre.
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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