tosa
\to.sa\
The verdict
“tosa” is uncommon French (frequency #93,332 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,332
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de tosa-inu (race de chien).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tosa · tosa · French
tosa · rank #93,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,332
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torsions
Nearest frequency peer: torsions (-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 « tosa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tomasz
Tomasz
6,672 corpus weight
- Tompkins
Tompkins
6,671 corpus weight
- torsions
torsions
6,670 corpus weight
- tosa
tosa
6,669 corpus weight
- toucherez
toucherez
6,668 corpus weight
- Tounkara
Tounkara
6,667 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tosa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tosa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to.sa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tosa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tosa is uncommon French at frequency #93,332 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \to.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de tosa-inu (race de chien).".
Zero misspellings are on record for tosa in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tosa, spelled T-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de tosa-inu (race de chien).
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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