toujours

\tu.ʒuʁ\

/\tu.ʒuʁ\/ adv

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The verdict

“toujours” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#106
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-toujours · toujours · French

toujours · rank #106 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #106
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH faut

Nearest frequency peer: faut (-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 « toujours »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « toujours » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

toujours vs toutous
75% similar
toujours vs tjrs
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for toujours
PropertyValue
Headwordtoujours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\tu.ʒuʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#106
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « toujours »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.toujoursse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « faut » (#105), « voir » (#107), « fois » (#104). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « toujours » est au #106. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around toujours (IPA \tu.ʒuʁ\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #106 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for toujours, with forms such as "otujours", "tojuours", and "toujjours". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is toujours, spelled T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin.
  2. 2
    Le plus souvent ; habituellement ; ordinairement.
  3. 3
    Comme par le passé.
  4. 4
    Sans exception ; en toute rencontre ; en toute occasion.
  5. 5
    En attendant, cependant, néanmoins, du moins, en tout cas.
  6. 6
    De toute façon.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how toujours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est une source qui coule toujours.
  2. Les Québécois ont toujours entretenu un rapport équivoque avec leur langue. Toujours? Non! Au temps de la Nouvelle-France, la question de la « qualité de la langue » ne se posait pas ….

Synonyms

éternellementcontinuellementhabituellementperpétuellementsempiternellement

Antonyms

exceptionnellementjamaisparfois

This word in other languages

always(English)siempre(Español)immer(Deutsch)sempre(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otujours
  • tojuours
  • toujjours
  • toujorus
  • toujourrs
  • toujourss
  • toujousr
  • toujuors
  • touojurs
  • ttoujours
  • tuojours

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of toujours - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

otujours2tojuours2toujjours1toujorus2toujourrs1toujourss1toujousr2toujuors2
Edit distance from "toujours"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "toujours"?
"toujours" is spelled T-O-U-J-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.ʒuʁ\.
What does "toujours" mean?
As an adverb, "toujours" means: En tout temps, continuellement, sans cesse, sans relâche, sans fin.
What words are commonly confused with "toujours"?
"toujours" is commonly confused with "toutous", "tjrs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "toujours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "toujours" is \tu.ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "toujours" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "toujours", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vraiment#133français#138beaucoup#140quelques#142

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

pendant11 variantshistoire11 variantsprendre11 variantsenfants11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list