tove
\ˈtɔvɛ\
The verdict
“tove” is uncommon French (frequency #88,179 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,179
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À l’égard de, envers, vis-à-vis de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tove · tove · French
tove · rank #88,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,179
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tracasser
Nearest frequency peer: tracasser (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tove »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tonsure
tonsure
11,826 corpus weight
- tooth
tooth
11,825 corpus weight
- toru
toru
11,824 corpus weight
- tove
tove
11,822 corpus weight
- tracasser
tracasser
11,821 corpus weight
- transbordeur
transbordeur
11,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tove » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tove |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \ˈtɔvɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tove » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tove is uncommon French at frequency #88,179 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed \ˈtɔvɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tove in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tove, spelled T-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1À l’égard de, envers, vis-à-vis de.
- 2À l’égard de, envers, vis-à-vis de.
- 3À l’égard de, envers, vis-à-vis de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tove appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In tove jin givanyer radjaf.
Inafa linularaja tir tove anton gadikye.
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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