toux
\tu\
The verdict
“toux” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,276. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,276
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expiration spasmodique et bruyante de l’air, accompagnée d’un mouvement convulsif du larynx et de la trachée-artère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toux · toux · French
toux · rank #15,276 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,276
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toussa
Nearest frequency peer: toussa (-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 « toux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tot
tot
84,728 corpus weight
- touchées
touchées
84,727 corpus weight
- toussa
toussa
84,726 corpus weight
- toux
toux
84,725 corpus weight
- tranché
tranché
84,724 corpus weight
- transmises
transmises
84,723 corpus weight
What this shows « toux » 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 | toux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « toux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around toux (IPA \tu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,276 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Expiration spasmodique et bruyante de l’air, accompagnée d’un mouvement convulsif du larynx et de la trachée-artère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for toux, with forms such as "otux", "touxx", and "toxu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "tx", "tué", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is toux, spelled T-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Expiration spasmodique et bruyante de l’air, accompagnée d’un mouvement convulsif du larynx et de la trachée-artère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how toux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien qu’il fût Islandais pur sang, il semblait supporter difficilement le climat de son pays : il était affligé d'une toux opiniâtre.
Souvent, sa poitrine était douloureusement secouée par une toux prolongée et terrible qui teintait de rouge son mouchoir…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otux
- touxx
- toxu
- ttoux
- tuox
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of toux - 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).