tort
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Propriété de celui ou celle qui se trompe, qui n’a pas le droit, la raison de son côté.
- 2Le fait d’avoir quelque chose à se reprocher envers quelqu’un.
- 3Lésion, 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"
Frequency rank: #2,394 in French
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