tordues
\tɔʁ.dy\
The verdict
“tordues” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,782
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de tordu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tordues · tordues · French
tordues · rank #44,782 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,782
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torcher
Nearest frequency peer: torcher (-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 « tordues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- TIFF
TIFF
55,223 corpus weight
- tone
tone
55,221 corpus weight
- torcher
torcher
55,220 corpus weight
- tordues
tordues
55,219 corpus weight
- tortueux
tortueux
55,218 corpus weight
- tourtereaux
tourtereaux
55,216 corpus weight
What this shows « tordues » 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 | tordues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.dy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tordues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tordues (IPA \tɔʁ.dy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,782 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de tordu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tordues, with forms such as "otrdues", "todrues", and "torddues". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tortue", "torres", "tordus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tordues, spelled T-O-R-D-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de tordu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tordues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout des gazes blanches ou peintes comme les ailes des plus jolies libellules, des crêpes, des dentelles, des blondes, des tulles variés comme les fantaisies de la nature entomologique, découpés, ondés, dentelés, des fils d’aranéide en or, en argent, des brouillards de soie, des fleurs brodées par les fées ou fleuries par des génies emprisonnés, des pl…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrdues
- todrues
- torddues
- tordeus
- torduess
- torduse
- torrdues
- torudes
- trodues
- ttordues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tordues - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).