two
\ˈtu\
The verdict
“two” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,083) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,083
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 2.
Corpus desk
Index FR-two · two · French
two · rank #13,083 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,083
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trouva
Nearest frequency peer: trouva (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « two »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- touch
touch
86,921 corpus weight
- transporteur
transporteur
86,920 corpus weight
- trouva
trouva
86,919 corpus weight
- two
two
86,918 corpus weight
- urnes
urnes
86,917 corpus weight
- vaudrait
vaudrait
86,916 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « two » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | two |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « two »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for two is neighbouring look-alikes ("ty", "tx", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈtu\. Frequency #13,083 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 2.".
No misspelling variants are generated for two in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ty", "tx", "Tyr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is two, spelled T-W-O.
Definition
- 1(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 2.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).