toujours
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#106
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
toujours is anFrenchadv. It means: En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin. Pronounced \tu.ʒuʁ\. It ranks #106 in French word frequency. Often confused with toutous and tjrs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toujours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \tu.ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for toujours is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu.ʒuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #106 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for toujours, with forms such as "otujours", "tojuours", and "toujjours". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "toutous", "tjrs", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is toujours, spelled T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin.
- 2Le plus souvent ; habituellement ; ordinairement.
- 3Comme par le passé.
- 4Sans exception ; en toute rencontre ; en toute occasion.
- 5En attendant, cependant, néanmoins, du moins, en tout cas.
- 6De toute façon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otujours,tojuours,toujjours,toujorus,toujourrs,toujourss,toujousr,toujuors,touojurs,ttoujours,tuojours
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toujours
Misspelling Variants of "toujours"
Frequency rank: #106 in French
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