typhon

\ti.fɔ̃\

/\ti.fɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“typhon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,909
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cyclone tropical très violent en Extrême-Orient, issu du Pacifique nord-ouest ou de la mer de Chine méridionale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-typhon · typhon · French

typhon · rank #26,909 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,909
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Twingo

Nearest frequency peer: Twingo (-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 « typhon »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « typhon » 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).

typhon vs typo
67% similar
typhon vs typhus
67% similar
typhon vs thon
67% similar

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

Key facts for typhon
PropertyValue
Headwordtyphon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.fɔ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#26,909
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « typhon »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).typhonse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Twingo » (#26,908), « ultimes » (#26,910), « troisièmes » (#26,907). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « typhon » est au #26,909. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around typhon (IPA \ti.fɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,909 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cyclone tropical très violent en Extrême-Orient, issu du Pacifique nord-ouest ou de la mer de Chine méridionale.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for typhon, with forms such as "tpyhon", "ttyphon", and "tyhpon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "typo", "typhus", "thon", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is typhon, spelled T-Y-P-H-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cyclone tropical très violent en Extrême-Orient, issu du Pacifique nord-ouest ou de la mer de Chine méridionale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Voyez. C’est un typhon qui se prépare ! − Va pour le typhon du sud, puisqu'il nous poussera du bon côté, répondit Mr Fogg.
  2. Depuis, j'ai vérifié que le vent est un grand personnage de la géographie, et que l'on s'expose à ne rien comprendre à l'histoire si l'on oublie les brises, les typhons, les mistrals et les foehns, ou bien ce vent grec qui emporta par étourderie, voilà près de trois mille ans, quelques marins de Phocée en Asie Mineure, et qui les jeta en France afin qu'il…

This word in other languages

typhoon(English)tifón(Español)Taifun(Deutsch)tufão(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • tpyhon
  • ttyphon
  • tyhpon
  • typhhon
  • typhno
  • typhonn
  • typohn
  • typphon
  • tyyphon
  • ytphon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of typhon - 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.

tpyhon2ttyphon1tyhpon2typhhon1typhno2typhonn1typohn2typphon1
Edit distance from "typhon"

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 "typhon"?
"typhon" is spelled T-Y-P-H-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.fɔ̃\.
What does "typhon" mean?
As a noun, "typhon" means: Cyclone tropical très violent en Extrême-Orient, issu du Pacifique nord-ouest ou de la mer de Chine méridionale.
What words are commonly confused with "typhon"?
"typhon" is commonly confused with "typo", "typhus", "thon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "typhon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "typhon" is \ti.fɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "typhon" come from?
"typhon" 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 "typhon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Twingo#26,908toutou#26,903valant#26,916toison#26,900

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

ultimes10 variantstraitez10 variantsZoologie10 variantssucrés10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list