tors

\tɔʁs\

/\tɔʁs\/ noun

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The verdict

“tors” is uncommon French (frequency #55,650 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,650
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tordre les brins qui forment le fil, la laine, la corde…, torsion qu’on leur donne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tors · tors · French

tors · rank #55,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,650
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tore

Nearest frequency peer: tore (-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 « tors »

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 « tors » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tors
PropertyValue
Headwordtors
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔʁs\
Letters4
Frequency rank#55,650
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tors » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tore » (#55,649), « tortiller » (#55,651), « toise » (#55,648). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tors » est au #55,650. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tors is uncommon French at frequency #55,650 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de tordre les brins qui forment le fil, la laine, la corde…, torsion qu’on leur donne.".

tors doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tors, spelled T-O-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de tordre les brins qui forment le fil, la laine, la corde…, torsion qu’on leur donne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Tors en Z, tors en S.

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 "tors"?
"tors" is spelled T-O-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔʁs\.
What does "tors" mean?
As a noun, "tors" means: Action de tordre les brins qui forment le fil, la laine, la corde…, torsion qu’on leur donne.
How do you pronounce "tors"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tors" is \tɔʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tors" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

tore#55,649tide#55,646tans#55,635sils#55,598

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list