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Which to use

“toge” and “tour” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#42,089
“toge” frequency rank
#360
“tour” frequency rank
42449
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature toge tour
Definition Robe de laine fort ample et longue, qui était le vêtement particulier des Romains et qu’ils mettaient par-dessus la tunique. Construction élevée, cylindrique, carrée ou polygonale.

Where the eye mixes toge and tour

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
toge
4 ch
tour

Look-alike desk: toge vs tour

A purely visual mix-up. toge (\tɔʒ\) and tour (\tuʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42449, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

toge is recorded at frequency rank #42,089, classified as anoun, pronounced \tɔʒ\. tour is at rank #360, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tuʁ\.

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 42449, this pair ranks #225,521 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of toge vs tour

Shared letters: ot. Private to "toge": eg. Private to "tour": ru.

"toge" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "tour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • togeotge · tgoe · toeg · togge · ttoge
  • tourotur · toru · tourr · ttour · tuor

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "toge" and "tour" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\tɔʒ\ versus \tuʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "toge" or "tour" show up more?
"tour" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #360 in our French list, against #42,089 for "toge". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "toge" and "tour" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "toge" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tour" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #225,521 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "toge" and "tour" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "toge vs token". 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 #225,521 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list