tondu
\tɔ̃.dy\
The verdict
“tondu” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,187. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,187
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on a tondu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tondu · tondu · French
tondu · rank #43,187 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,187
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH titanesque
Nearest frequency peer: titanesque (-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 « tondu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tignes
Tignes
56,817 corpus weight
- tiret
tiret
56,816 corpus weight
- titanesque
titanesque
56,815 corpus weight
- tondu
tondu
56,814 corpus weight
- tounes
tounes
56,813 corpus weight
- Townsend
Townsend
56,812 corpus weight
What this shows « tondu » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tondu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tondu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tondu (IPA \tɔ̃.dy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,187 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que l’on a tondu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tondu, with forms such as "otndu", "tnodu", and "todnu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tou", "Tony", "tord", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tondu, spelled T-O-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Que l’on a tondu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tondu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même que les silhouettes féminines aux seins visiblement absents, les cheveux tondus furent abondamment représentés dans la presse illustrée.
Le spectacle si gênant, si bouleversant, des femmes tondues, auquel j’assiste un après-midi place du Théâtre, je ne saurais comme l’interpréter si je n’avais trouvé dans les Lettres le beau poème d’Eluard : « Comprenne qui pourra / Moi, mon remords ce fut / La malheureuse qui resta / Sur le pavé / La victime raisonnable / à la robe déchirée. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otndu
- tnodu
- todnu
- tonddu
- tonndu
- tonud
- ttondu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tondu - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).