TonivstosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Toni is a name, tos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Toni” is a name and “tos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,188
“Toni” frequency rank
#48,234
“tos” frequency rank
69422
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Toni tos
Definition Prénom masculin. Élève de première année à l’École polytechnique.

Letter map: Toni vs tos

Shared letters muted; letters that set Toni and tos apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Toni runs 4 letters (CVCV) against tos's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Toni
3 ch
tos

Part-of-speech tell for Toni / tos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Toni is aname and tosanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69422, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Toni is recorded at frequency rank #21,188, classified as aname. tos is at rank #48,234, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tos\.

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 69422, this pair ranks #55,171 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Toni vs tos

Shared letters: ot. Private to "Toni": in. Private to "tos": s.

"Toni" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "tos" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Toni ← otni · tnoi · toin · tonni · ttoni

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Toni" for "tos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Toni" is a name and "tos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Toni" vs "tos" - which ranks higher?
"Toni" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,188 in our French list, against #48,234 for "tos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Toni" and "tos". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Toni" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #55,171 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Toni" and "tos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tif 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 #55,171 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