tonte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,573
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tonte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de tondre la laine, la pelouse, etc. Pronounced \tɔ̃t\. Often confused with tot and tte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tonte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,573 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tonte, with forms such as "otnte", "tnote", and "tonet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tot", "tte", "tout", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tonte, spelled T-O-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de tondre la laine, la pelouse, etc.
- 2Action de tondre la laine, la pelouse, etc.
- 3Laine qu’on retire en tondant un troupeau.
- 4Temps où l’on tond les ovins.
- 5(Par métonymie) Par analogie avec la répétition des tontes de gazon, stratégie militaire où des attaques similaires sont régulièrement menées contre un ennemi pendant plusieurs années.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otnte,tnote,tonet,tonnte,tontte,totne,ttonte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tonte
Misspelling Variants of "tonte"
Frequency rank: #38,573 in French
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