towards
\tə.ˈwɔːdz\
The verdict
“towards” is uncommon French (frequency #58,305 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,305
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vis-à-vis de, en relation avec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-towards · towards · French
towards · rank #58,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,305
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH township
Nearest frequency peer: township (+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 « towards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- toqué
toqué
41,700 corpus weight
- Tourangeau
Tourangeau
41,699 corpus weight
- Tournus
Tournus
41,698 corpus weight
- towards
towards
41,696 corpus weight
- township
township
41,695 corpus weight
- tracent
tracent
41,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « towards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | towards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \tə.ˈwɔːdz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « towards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
towards is uncommon French at frequency #58,305 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed \tə.ˈwɔːdz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for towards, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is towards, spelled T-O-W-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Vis-à-vis de, en relation avec.
- 2En, vers, à, envers, pour.
Synonyms
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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