un ton plus bas
\œ̃ tɔ̃ ply ba\
The verdict
“un ton plus bas” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Moins fort, en parlant de s’exprimer de la voix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | un ton plus bas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \œ̃ tɔ̃ ply ba\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “un ton plus bas” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for un ton plus bas is 15 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ̃ tɔ̃ ply ba\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for un ton plus bas in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is un ton plus bas, spelled U-N- -T-O-N- -P-L-U-S- -B-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moins fort, en parlant de s’exprimer de la voix.
- 2Avec moins d’orgueil ; avec moins d’arrogance ; en rabattant de sa fierté.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “un ton plus bas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is U-N- -T-O-N- -P-L-U-S- -B-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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