tonicité
\tɔ.ni.si.te\
The verdict
“tonicité” is uncommon French (frequency #78,923 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,923
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Légère contraction, tension élastique que présentent les tissus vivants, spécialement les muscles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonicite · tonicité · French
tonicité · rank #78,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,923
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tonale
Nearest frequency peer: tonale (-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 « tonicité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tomberai
tomberai
21,082 corpus weight
- tonal
tonal
21,080 corpus weight
- tonale
tonale
21,079 corpus weight
- tonicité
tonicité
21,078 corpus weight
- TPI
TPI
21,076 corpus weight
- trahissez
trahissez
21,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonicité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonicité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ni.si.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonicité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonicité is uncommon French at frequency #78,923 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.ni.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Légère contraction, tension élastique que présentent les tissus vivants, spécialement les muscles.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tonicité, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 tonicité, spelled T-O-N-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Légère contraction, tension élastique que présentent les tissus vivants, spécialement les muscles.
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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