tonner
\tɔ.ne\
The verdict
“tonner” is uncommon French (frequency #82,532 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,532
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire éclater le tonnerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonner · tonner · French
tonner · rank #82,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,532
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tondue
Nearest frequency peer: tondue (-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 « tonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tirerez
tirerez
17,472 corpus weight
- TMP
TMP
17,471 corpus weight
- tondue
tondue
17,470 corpus weight
- tonner
tonner
17,469 corpus weight
- tonnerres
tonnerres
17,468 corpus weight
- toucheraient
toucheraient
17,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonner is uncommon French at frequency #82,532 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tonner, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tonner, spelled T-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire éclater le tonnerre.
- 2Faire entendre un bruit retentissant comme le tonnerre.
- 3Parler contre quelqu’un ou quelque chose avec beaucoup de force et de véhémence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il tonne. Les éclairs zèbrent le ciel.
Jupiter se mit à tonner.
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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