tore

\tɔʁ\

/\tɔʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“tore” is uncommon French (frequency #55,649 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,649
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surface fermée en forme d’anneau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tore · tore · French

tore · rank #55,649 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,649
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH toise

Nearest frequency peer: toise (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « tore »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tore
PropertyValue
Headwordtore
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#55,649
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tore » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.toretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « toise » (#55,648), « tors » (#55,650), « tiendraient » (#55,647). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tore » est au #55,649. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tore is uncommon French at frequency #55,649 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tore, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tore, spelled T-O-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Surface fermée en forme d’anneau.
  2. 2
    Moulure ronde, faisant ordinairement partie de la base des colonnes.
  3. 3
    Petit anneau de forme toroïdale utilisé pour constituer, grâce à ses propriétés magnétiques, une mémoire d’ordinateur.
  4. 4
    Réceptacle, fond du calice d'une fleur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une structure bipartite dont une partie est le trou de l’autre, cela pourrait peut-être se topologiser comme deux tores insérés l’un dans l’autre, peu importe.
  2. Les fonts de Bertoncourt, près de Rethel, sont postérieurs à ceux dont nous venons de parler; […]. La cuve, octogone, repose sur un fût cylindrique dont la base est ornée d'un tore aplati, avec fleurs de lis aux angles.

Synonyms

boudinbosel

This word in other languages

torus(English)toro(Español)Torus(Deutsch)toro(Português)

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 "tore"?
"tore" is spelled T-O-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔʁ\.
What does "tore" mean?
As a noun, "tore" means: Surface fermée en forme d’anneau.
How do you pronounce "tore"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tore" is \tɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tore" come from?
"tore" 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 "tore", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tors#55,650tide#55,646tans#55,635sils#55,598

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list