Which to use
“thou” and “touts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,777
- “thou” frequency rank
- #29,573
- “touts” frequency rank
- 74350
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | thou | touts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Écluse en pierre ou en béton permettant de vider lentement les étangs de la Dombes dans l'Ain. | Pluriel de tout. |
Same sound, different letters: thou vs touts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters. thou runs 4 letters (CCVV) against touts's 5 (CVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - thou and touts
This is the hard kind. thou and touts are pronounced identically (\tu\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74350, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
thou is recorded at frequency rank #44,777, classified as anoun, pronounced \tu\. touts is at rank #29,573, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tu\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 74350, this pair ranks #37,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of thou vs touts
Shared letters: otu. Private to "thou": h. Private to "touts": s.
"thou" · 4 letters · shape CCVV · "touts" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "thou" and "touts" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "thou" or "touts"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "thou" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #37,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "thou" and "touts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "thou vs tos". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #37,435 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.