tordus
\tɔʁ.dy\
The verdict
“tordus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,376
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de tordu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tordus · tordus · French
tordus · rank #28,376 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,376
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH théoricien
Nearest frequency peer: théoricien (-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 « tordus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Telegraph
Telegraph
71,628 corpus weight
- tentaient
tentaient
71,627 corpus weight
- théoricien
théoricien
71,626 corpus weight
- tordus
tordus
71,625 corpus weight
- touffe
touffe
71,624 corpus weight
- toulousaine
toulousaine
71,623 corpus weight
What this shows « tordus » 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 | tordus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.dy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tordus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tordus (IPA \tɔʁ.dy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,376 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de tordu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tordus, with forms such as "otrdus", "todrus", and "torddus". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "tous", "trous", "torts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tordus, spelled T-O-R-D-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de tordu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tordus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un tapissier… Ce n’est pas la peine de s’imaginer des scénarios tordus délirants avec des gendarmes ultra-sexys faisant une haie d’honneur, me présentant un homme torse nu en salopette sur un escabeau avec son couteau à maroufler dans la main droite et une rose entre les dents.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrdus
- todrus
- torddus
- tordsu
- torduss
- torrdus
- toruds
- trodus
- ttordus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tordus - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).