Tor

\toːɐ̯\

/\toːɐ̯\/ noun

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The verdict

“Tor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,440) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#22,440
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portail (porte d’entrée d’un terrain).

Corpus desk

Index FR-tor · Tor · French

Tor · rank #22,440 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,440
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Timothy

Nearest frequency peer: Timothy (-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 « Tor »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Tor » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Tor vs tu
0% similar
Tor vs TV
33% similar
Tor vs TS
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Tor
PropertyValue
HeadwordTor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\toːɐ̯\
Letters3
Frequency rank#22,440
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Tor »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Torse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Timothy » (#22,439), « tournesol » (#22,441), « thing » (#22,438). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « Tor » est au #22,440. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Tor is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \toːɐ̯\. Frequency #22,440 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Zero misspellings are on record for Tor in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "TS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct French form is Tor, spelled T-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Portail (porte d’entrée d’un terrain).
  2. 2
    Porte monumentale.
  3. 3
    But (le fait de faire entrer le ballon dans la cage de but).
  4. 4
    Cage de but.
  5. 5
    Porte de slalom.
  6. 6
    Graphie ancienne de Thor (divinité nordique).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Tor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Eine der spürbarsten Folgen der Schließung der Tore war nämlich die plötzliche Trennung von Menschen, die nicht darauf vorbereitet waren.
  2. Er hatte ein Stück von der Welt gesehen, war anno 13 vierspännig nach Süddeutschland gefahren, um als Heereslieferant für Preußen Getreide aufzukaufen, war in Amsterdam und Paris gewesen und hielt, ein aufgeklärter Mann, bei Gott nicht alles für verurteilenswürdig, was außerhalb der Tore seiner giebeligen Vaterstadt lag.

Antonyms

Weiser

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Tor"?
"Tor" is spelled T-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is \toːɐ̯\.
What does "Tor" mean?
As a noun, "Tor" means: Portail (porte d’entrée d’un terrain).
What words are commonly confused with "Tor"?
"Tor" is commonly confused with "tu", "TV", "TS". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Tor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Tor" is \toːɐ̯\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Tor" come from?
"Tor" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tor", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

toy#22,442XXL#22,458RPR#22,405cab#22,504

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list