tosh
\tɒʃ\
The verdict
“tosh” is uncommon French (frequency #79,808 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,808
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-sens, ânerie, absurdité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tosh · tosh · French
tosh · rank #79,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,808
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torch
Nearest frequency peer: torch (-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 « tosh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tirésias
Tirésias
20,196 corpus weight
- tita
tita
20,195 corpus weight
- torch
torch
20,194 corpus weight
- tosh
tosh
20,193 corpus weight
- totaliser
totaliser
20,192 corpus weight
- tournelle
tournelle
20,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tosh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tosh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɒʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tosh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tosh is uncommon French at frequency #79,808 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɒʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-sens, ânerie, absurdité.".
tosh has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tosh, spelled T-O-S-H.
Definition
- 1Non-sens, ânerie, absurdité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tosh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.
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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