tough
\tɔf\
The verdict
“tough” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,229
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fort, résistant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tough · tough · French
tough · rank #44,229 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,229
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toucheront
Nearest frequency peer: toucheront (-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 « tough »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tino
tino
55,776 corpus weight
- tissés
tissés
55,775 corpus weight
- topologie
topologie
55,774 corpus weight
- toucheront
toucheront
55,773 corpus weight
- tough
tough
55,772 corpus weight
- tournis
tournis
55,771 corpus weight
What this shows « tough » 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 | tough |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tough »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tough (IPA \tɔf\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,229 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tough, with forms such as "otugh", "toguh", and "touggh". 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, "tout", "tous", "tour", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 tough, spelled T-O-U-G-H.
Definition
- 1Fort, résistant.
- 2Pénible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tough appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Il faut que tu sois tough. Ç'a été une des courses les plus difficiles de la saison avec la visibilité qui variait », a-t-il encore dit.
Je suis un vrai pigeon pour les histoires de gens affligés qui survivent parce qu'ils sont tough. J'ai aimé tous les Rocky, même Rocky IV et Rocky V.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otugh
- toguh
- touggh
- toughh
- touhg
- ttough
- tuogh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tough - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tough", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).