Which to use
“tondre” and “touré” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,401
- “tondre” frequency rank
- #18,893
- “touré” frequency rank
- 49294
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tondre | touré |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Couper à ras la laine ou le poil des bêtes. | Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe tourer. |
Where the eye mixes tondre and touré
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. tondre runs 6 letters (CVCCCV) against touré's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: tondre vs touré
A purely visual mix-up. tondre (\tɔ̃dʁ\) and touré (\tu.ʁe\) 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 49294, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tondre is recorded at frequency rank #30,401, classified as averb, pronounced \tɔ̃dʁ\. touré is at rank #18,893, tagged as averb, pronounced \tu.ʁe\.
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 49294, this pair ranks #171,863 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of tondre vs touré
Shared letters: ort. Private to "tondre": den. Private to "touré": ué.
"tondre" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV · "touré" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- tondre ← otndre · tnodre · todnre · tonddre · tonder · tondrre · tonndre · tonrde
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tondre" and "touré" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "tondre" or "touré" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "tondre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touré" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #171,863 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tondre" and "touré" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tondre vs tone". 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 #171,863 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.