tos
\tos\
The verdict
“tos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,234) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,234
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élève de première année à l’École polytechnique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tos · tos · French
tos · rank #48,234 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,234
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tora
Nearest frequency peer: Tora (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tos »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tools
tools
51,769 corpus weight
- Tora
Tora
51,768 corpus weight
- tos
tos
51,767 corpus weight
- transgresser
transgresser
51,766 corpus weight
- trapu
trapu
51,765 corpus weight
- travelling
travelling
51,764 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tos » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | tos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tos\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tos »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tos is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tos\. Frequency #48,234 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
tos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "TS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tos, spelled T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Élève de première année à l’École polytechnique.
- 2Portugais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… une tête de frisé, très brun, avec deux billes noires à la place des yeux, une tête de Portugais, de tos comme on disait à l'école.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).