Toul
\tul\
The verdict
“Toul” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,643
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toul · Toul · French
Toul · rank #27,643 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,643
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torturés
Nearest frequency peer: torturés (-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 « Toul »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tombeaux
tombeaux
72,361 corpus weight
- torpille
torpille
72,360 corpus weight
- torturés
torturés
72,359 corpus weight
- Toul
Toul
72,358 corpus weight
- tourmenté
tourmenté
72,357 corpus weight
- trahie
trahie
72,356 corpus weight
What this shows « Toul » 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 | Toul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tul\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Toul »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Toul (IPA \tul\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,643 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Toul, with forms such as "otul", "tolu", and "toull". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "tué", "toy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Toul, spelled T-O-U-L.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Meurthe-et-Moselle.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Toul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on remonte de Toul vers le Nord-Ouest, le paysage n'est pas sans grandeur.
Tout le monde à Toul sait ce qu’il en est de la cathédrale de Toul car enfin si la cathédrale de Toul se décathédralisait, dites-moi, Touloises, Toulois, comment recathédraliserait-on la cathédrale de Toul ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otul
- tolu
- toull
- ttoul
- tuol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Toul - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).