tongs
\tɔ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“tongs” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,221
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tong.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tongs · tongs · French
tongs · rank #32,221 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,221
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH togolais
Nearest frequency peer: togolais (-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 « tongs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tilly
Tilly
67,783 corpus weight
- Timberlake
Timberlake
67,782 corpus weight
- togolais
togolais
67,781 corpus weight
- tongs
tongs
67,780 corpus weight
- tourbe
tourbe
67,779 corpus weight
- toxicomanie
toxicomanie
67,778 corpus weight
What this shows « tongs » 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 | tongs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tongs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tongs (IPA \tɔ̃ɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,221 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tong.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tongs, with forms such as "otngs", "tnogs", and "togns". 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, "tos", "tous", "Tony", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tongs, spelled T-O-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tong.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tongs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De plus en plus les jeunes, dans les rues de Tizi Ouzou, Aïn El-Hammam, Azazga, Azeffoune... s'afghanisent, se saoudianisent : des qamis, les barbes et des tongs d’ablution.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otngs
- tnogs
- togns
- tonggs
- tongss
- tonngs
- tonsg
- ttongs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tongs - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).