toss
\tɔs\
The verdict
“toss” is uncommon French (frequency #86,259 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,259
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pile ou face avant une rencontre qui permet à l’équipe qui le remporte de choisir de donner le coup d’envoi ou de choisir de débuter à gauche ou à droite du terrain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toss · toss · French
toss · rank #86,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,259
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH touret
Nearest frequency peer: touret (+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 « toss »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tonds
tonds
13,746 corpus weight
- toreros
toreros
13,745 corpus weight
- torique
torique
13,744 corpus weight
- toss
toss
13,742 corpus weight
- touret
touret
13,741 corpus weight
- tragedie
tragedie
13,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « toss » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toss » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toss is uncommon French at frequency #86,259 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pile ou face avant une rencontre qui permet à l’équipe qui le remporte de choisir de donner le coup d’envoi ou de choisir de débuter à gauche ou à droite du terrain.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for toss, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is toss, spelled T-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1Pile ou face avant une rencontre qui permet à l’équipe qui le remporte de choisir de donner le coup d’envoi ou de choisir de débuter à gauche ou à droite du terrain.
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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