tone
\ˈtoːnə\
The verdict
“tone” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,780) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,780
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de tonen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tone · tone · French
tone · rank #44,780 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,780
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torcher
Nearest frequency peer: torcher (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tone »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- thou
thou
55,224 corpus weight
- TIFF
TIFF
55,223 corpus weight
- tone
tone
55,221 corpus weight
- torcher
torcher
55,220 corpus weight
- tordues
tordues
55,219 corpus weight
- tortueux
tortueux
55,218 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tone » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | tone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtoːnə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tone »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tone is neighbouring look-alikes ("top", "tué", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈtoːnə\. Frequency #44,780 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for tone, with forms such as "otne", "tnoe", and "toen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "top", "tué", "too", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tone, spelled T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de tonen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de tonen.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de tonen.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de tonen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otne
- tnoe
- toen
- ttone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tone - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).