tory
\tɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“tory” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,176. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,176
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom qu’on a donné en Angleterre aux partisans de Charles II, et qui depuis est resté le nom générique du parti conservateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tory · tory · French
tory · rank #29,176 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,176
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tombouctou
Nearest frequency peer: Tombouctou (-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 « tory »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tessier
Tessier
70,829 corpus weight
- thaïlandaise
thaïlandaise
70,828 corpus weight
- Tombouctou
Tombouctou
70,826 corpus weight
- tory
tory
70,825 corpus weight
- trempée
trempée
70,824 corpus weight
- trinity
trinity
70,823 corpus weight
What this shows « tory » 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 | tory |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tory »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tory (IPA \tɔ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,176 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom qu’on a donné en Angleterre aux partisans de Charles II, et qui depuis est resté le nom générique du parti conservateur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tory, with forms such as "otry", "torry", and "toryy". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ty", "tri", "tre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tory, spelled T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom qu’on a donné en Angleterre aux partisans de Charles II, et qui depuis est resté le nom générique du parti conservateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tory appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une mesure qui a remué si profondément la vieille Angleterre, […], qui a porté enfin la division et la révolte dans le camp des torys ; […].
En choisissant cette ligne d’attaque, Brown fait pourtant semblant d’ignorer que les tories ont fait marche arrière sur la posture d’austérité qu’ils avaient annoncée lors de leur grande conférence l’année dernière.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otry
- torry
- toryy
- toyr
- ttory
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tory - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).