tousser
\tu.se\
The verdict
“tousser” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,492
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir un accès de toux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tousser · tousser · French
tousser · rank #33,492 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,492
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tourelles
Nearest frequency peer: tourelles (-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 « tousser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- thought
thought
66,512 corpus weight
- tornades
tornades
66,511 corpus weight
- tourelles
tourelles
66,510 corpus weight
- tousser
tousser
66,509 corpus weight
- tribulations
tribulations
66,507 corpus weight
- tricoter
tricoter
66,506 corpus weight
What this shows « tousser » 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 | tousser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tousser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tousser (IPA \tu.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,492 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tousser, with forms such as "otusser", "tosuser", and "touser". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "trousse", "trousses", "toussa", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tousser, spelled T-O-U-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Avoir un accès de toux.
- 2Faire à dessein le bruit de la toux.
- 3Faire un bruit rappelant la toux.
- 4Réagir face à des propos choquants.
- 5Tousser quelqu'un : manifester, par un toussotement, de la désapprobation à ce qu'il dit ou à ce qu'il fait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tousser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une âcre fumée lui piqua les yeux et le gosier, si bien qu’il se prit à tousser comme un chat qui avale des plumes en croquant un oiseau, et qu’il se passa bien deux minutes avant qu’il pût parler.
Longue marche dans le brouillard. Le régiment tousse, moins la compagnie du lieutenant Viard, où la toux est punie et où les soldats se rattrapent sur l'éternuement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otusser
- tosuser
- touser
- tousesr
- tousserr
- toussre
- ttousser
- tuosser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tousser - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).