top
\tɔp\
The verdict
“top” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,241) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,241
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le meilleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-top · top · French
top · rank #1,241 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,241
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH totalement
Nearest frequency peer: totalement (+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 « top »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sciences
sciences
98,763 corpus weight
- secret
secret
98,762 corpus weight
- top
top
98,760 corpus weight
- totalement
totalement
98,759 corpus weight
- usage
usage
98,758 corpus weight
- week
week
98,757 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « top » 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 | top |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « top »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for top is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tɔp\. Frequency #1,241 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for top, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is top, spelled T-O-P.
Definition
- 1Le meilleur.
- 2(Généralement suivi d'un nombre indiquant le nombre d'éléments considérés) Regroupement des meilleurs concurrents selon un classement
- 3Haut, débardeur, habit qui couvre le haut du corps.
- 4Maximum.
- 5Top model.
- 6Sorte de bruit aigu pour indiquer l'heure exacte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how top appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] c'est ainsi que ce fatras de producteurs, nageurs, dentistes, agents immobiliers, juristes de studios (de cinéma), pourvoyeurs de coke, marchands d'automobile-z-allemandes, exilés au soleil, voyaient le top de l'Éducation supérieure : Harvard Business School pour les affaires, Harvard School of Law pour le droit, Harvard University pour les indécis.
Pour les gens de ma génération, Platini, c'est le top du top. Platinix. Celui qui arrivait avec sa potion magique pour nous qualifier dans les matchs décisifs.
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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