Tonkin
\tɔ̃.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“Tonkin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,766
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne colonie française d’Indochine, correspondant à la partie septentrionale du Viêt Nam actuel (les deux autres parties étant l’Annam et la Cochinchine).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonkin · Tonkin · French
Tonkin · rank #31,766 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,766
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TMC
Nearest frequency peer: TMC (-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 « Tonkin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- taquet
taquet
68,238 corpus weight
- Thèbes
Thèbes
68,237 corpus weight
- TMC
TMC
68,236 corpus weight
- Tonkin
Tonkin
68,235 corpus weight
- Tsahal
Tsahal
68,233 corpus weight
- Turpin
Turpin
68,232 corpus weight
What this shows « Tonkin » 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 | Tonkin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tonkin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Tonkin (IPA \tɔ̃.kɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,766 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancienne colonie française d’Indochine, correspondant à la partie septentrionale du Viêt Nam actuel (les deux autres parties étant l’Annam et la Cochinchine).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tonkin, with forms such as "otnkin", "tnokin", and "toknin". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "tonton", "Toni", "tonic", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Tonkin, spelled T-O-N-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Ancienne colonie française d’Indochine, correspondant à la partie septentrionale du Viêt Nam actuel (les deux autres parties étant l’Annam et la Cochinchine).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tonkin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’anis étoilé ou badiane croît au Tonkin, en Annam, dans la Chine du Sud.
Jean Golfier, capitaine, est mort au combat le 15 novembre 1952 à Boc Hen, secteur de Lai Than (Tonkin) à 35 ans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otnkin
- tnokin
- toknin
- tonikn
- tonkinn
- tonkkin
- tonkni
- tonnkin
- ttonkin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tonkin - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).