torchon
\tɔʁ.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“torchon” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,189
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui néglige l’entretien et la propreté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torchon · torchon · French
torchon · rank #21,189 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,189
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Toni
Nearest frequency peer: Toni (-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 « torchon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- testés
testés
78,815 corpus weight
- thoracique
thoracique
78,814 corpus weight
- Toni
Toni
78,813 corpus weight
- torchon
torchon
78,812 corpus weight
- torturer
torturer
78,811 corpus weight
- toto
toto
78,810 corpus weight
What this shows « torchon » 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 | torchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « torchon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around torchon (IPA \tɔʁ.ʃɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,189 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui néglige l’entretien et la propreté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for torchon, with forms such as "otrchon", "tocrhon", and "torcchon". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "torsion", "torchons", "torche", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 torchon, spelled T-O-R-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui néglige l’entretien et la propreté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torchon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’étais pas seule de service, j’avais une collègue, particulièrement chargée de la cantine et du bureau de la directrice, mais tenue aussi de me seconder : Mme Paulin, une femme d’aspect torchon et bienveillant, de type méridional, brune, solide, vive et d’âge indéterminé.
Ni même le modèle au-dessous, moins distingué, plus torchon, les frotteuses d’évier à se mirer dedans, les accommodatrices de restes, et celles qui sont à la sortie de l’école un quart d’heure avant la sonnerie, tous devoirs ménagers accomplis ; les bien organisées jusqu’à la mort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrchon
- tocrhon
- torcchon
- torchhon
- torchno
- torchonn
- torcohn
- torhcon
- torrchon
- trochon
- ttorchon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of torchon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "torchon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).