toner
\tɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“toner” is uncommon French (frequency #68,701 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,701
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Encre en poudre utilisée dans les appareils d’impression photo-électrique comme les imprimantes laser et les photocopieurs grâce à la « xérographie » (procédé inventé par la compagnie Xerox).
Corpus desk
Index FR-toner · toner · French
toner · rank #68,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,701
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tomberaient
Nearest frequency peer: tomberaient (-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 « toner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thiry
Thiry
31,303 corpus weight
- tomberaient
tomberaient
31,301 corpus weight
- toner
toner
31,300 corpus weight
- tonitruante
tonitruante
31,299 corpus weight
- Tourmalet
Tourmalet
31,298 corpus weight
- tourterelles
tourterelles
31,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toner is uncommon French at frequency #68,701 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Encre en poudre utilisée dans les appareils d’impression photo-électrique comme les imprimantes laser et les photocopieurs grâce à la « xérographie » (procédé inventé par la compagnie Xerox).".
toner has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is toner, spelled T-O-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Encre en poudre utilisée dans les appareils d’impression photo-électrique comme les imprimantes laser et les photocopieurs grâce à la « xérographie » (procédé inventé par la compagnie Xerox).
This word in other languages
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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