tort

/\tɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,394

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

tort is aFrenchnoun. It means: Propriété de celui ou celle qui se trompe, qui n’a pas le droit, la raison de son côté. Pronounced \tɔʁ\. It ranks #2,394 in French word frequency. Often confused with tri and tre.

Key facts for tort
PropertyValue
Headwordtort
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,394
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tort in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tort is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,394 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tort, with forms such as "otrt", "torrt", and "tortt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tri", "tre", "tot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tort, spelled T-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propriété de celui ou celle qui se trompe, qui n’a pas le droit, la raison de son côté.
  2. 2
    Le fait d’avoir quelque chose à se reprocher envers quelqu’un.
  3. 3
    Lésion, dommage qu’on souffre ou qu’on fait souffrir.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: otrt,torrt,tortt,totr,ttort

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tort

Misspelling Variants of "tort"

otrt4torrt5tortt5totr4ttort5
Misspelling Variants of "tort"

Frequency rank: #2,394 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tort"?
"tort" is spelled T-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔʁ\.
What does "tort" mean?
As a noun, "tort" means: Propriété de celui ou celle qui se trompe, qui n’a pas le droit, la raison de son côté.
What words are commonly confused with "tort"?
"tort" is commonly confused with "tri", "tre", "tot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tort"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tort" is \tɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tort" come from?
"tort" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.