tsonga
The verdict
“tsonga” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,497
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée en Afrique du Sud et au Mozambique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tsonga · tsonga · French
tsonga · rank #33,497 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,497
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trousseau
Nearest frequency peer: trousseau (-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 « tsonga »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tribulations
tribulations
66,507 corpus weight
- tricoter
tricoter
66,506 corpus weight
- trousseau
trousseau
66,505 corpus weight
- tsonga
tsonga
66,504 corpus weight
- tumulte
tumulte
66,503 corpus weight
- turbulence
turbulence
66,502 corpus weight
What this shows « tsonga » 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 | tsonga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tsonga »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tsonga, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,497 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée en Afrique du Sud et au Mozambique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tsonga, with forms such as "stonga", "tosnga", and "tsnoga". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tong", "tongs", "Tonga", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tsonga, spelled T-S-O-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée en Afrique du Sud et au Mozambique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tsonga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant au tsonga, parlé dans l’extrême sud, il recule face au portugais, aujourd’hui dominant à Maputo […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- stonga
- tosnga
- tsnoga
- tsogna
- tsonag
- tsongga
- tsonnga
- tssonga
- ttsonga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tsonga - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tsonga", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).