tons
\tɔ̃\
The verdict
“tons” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,272
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tons · tons · French
tons · rank #12,272 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,272
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Todd
Nearest frequency peer: Todd (-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 « tons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- théoriques
théoriques
87,732 corpus weight
- théorème
théorème
87,731 corpus weight
- Todd
Todd
87,730 corpus weight
- tons
tons
87,729 corpus weight
- trajets
trajets
87,728 corpus weight
- transmise
transmise
87,727 corpus weight
What this shows « tons » 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 | tons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tons (IPA \tɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,272 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tons, with forms such as "otns", "tnos", and "tonns". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TS", "top", "too", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tons, spelled T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De la vue qu’encadrait la fenêtre de sa chambre, il retint le bleu lavande du ciel orageux et des collines et les tons rompus de bleu-vert du champ de blé en herbe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otns
- tnos
- tonns
- tonss
- tosn
- ttons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tons - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).