too
\ˈtu\
The verdict
“too” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,484) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,484
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aussi, également.
Corpus desk
Index FR-too · too · French
too · rank #13,484 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,484
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TD
Nearest frequency peer: TD (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « too »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- soupçon
soupçon
86,520 corpus weight
- spoiler
spoiler
86,519 corpus weight
- TD
TD
86,518 corpus weight
- too
too
86,517 corpus weight
- transcripti…
transcription
86,516 corpus weight
- validation
validation
86,515 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « too » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | too |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈtu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « too »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for too is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \ˈtu\. Frequency #13,484 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
too doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "TS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is too, spelled T-O-O.
Definition
- 1Aussi, également.
- 2Trop.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how too appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He’s going there too.
It’s too cold here.
Synonyms
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "too", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).