tower

verb

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The verdict

“tower” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,419
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remorquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tower · tower · French

tower · rank #19,419 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,419
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH them

Nearest frequency peer: them (-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 « tower »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tower » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tower vs tuer
60% similar
tower vs town
60% similar
tower vs Tyler
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tower
PropertyValue
Headwordtower
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#19,419
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tower »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).towerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « them » (#19,418), « track » (#19,420), « Tanzanie » (#19,417). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tower » est au #19,419. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around tower, averb. Corpus frequency is #19,419 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Remorquer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tower, with forms such as "otwer", "toewr", and "towerr". 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, "tuer", "town", "Tyler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tower, spelled T-O-W-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Remorquer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tower appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La Présidente (Mme St-Pierre) : Est-ce qu’il y a d’autres commentaires? Mme Charbonneau : Un tout petit, Mme la Présidente, pour dire au ministre, vous savez, où j’habite, à Laval, juste en avant de l’immeuble où j’habite il y a une pancarte qui dit que si je suis stationnée là puis je ne devrais pas l’être, je vais être «towée» et que ce geste-là sera à…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otwer
  • toewr
  • towerr
  • towre
  • towwer
  • ttower
  • twoer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tower - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

otwer2toewr2towerr1towre2towwer1ttower1twoer2
Edit distance from "tower"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tower"?
"tower" is spelled T-O-W-E-R.
What does "tower" mean?
As a verb, "tower" means: Remorquer.
What words are commonly confused with "tower"?
"tower" is commonly confused with "tuer", "town", "Tyler". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "tower" come from?
"tower" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tower", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

track#19,420supra#19,415Ahmad#19,436santo#19,401

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Saddam7 variantsravin7 variantspollen7 variantsPogba7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list