Which to use
“till” and “tollé” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,617
- “till” frequency rank
- #27,264
- “tollé” frequency rank
- 63881
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | till | tollé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Graine oléagineuse venant de l’Inde. | Cri d’indignation (souvent figuratif). |
Where the eye mixes till and tollé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. till runs 4 letters (CVCC) against tollé's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: till vs tollé
A purely visual mix-up. till (\til\) and tollé (\tɔ.le\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63881, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
till is recorded at frequency rank #36,617, classified as anoun, pronounced \til\. tollé is at rank #27,264, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tɔ.le\.
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 63881, this pair ranks #79,755 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of till vs tollé
Shared letters: lt. Private to "till": i. Private to "tollé": oé.
"till" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "tollé" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- till ← itll · tlil · ttill
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "till" and "tollé" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "till" or "tollé" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "till" and "tollé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "till" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tollé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #79,755 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "till" and "tollé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tif vs till". 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 #79,755 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.