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tos

French, noun

tos is a French masculine noun meaning “a first-year student at the École polytechnique” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a variant plural of tô. With an accent, tôs is a different word: “plural of tô”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élève de première année à l’École polytechnique”.

What does tos mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineslanga first-year student at the École polytechnique

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryfemininemasculineslanga Portuguese

noun

  1. 1

    masculinevariant plural of tô

noun

as tôs
  1. 1

    plural of tô

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Élève de première année à l’École polytechnique. 2. Portugais.

noun: 1. Champ de l’en-tête IPv4 spécifiant de DSCP et l’ECN, dans les réseaux OSPF et RIP V2.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of tos

  • tossette feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is tos in French?

tos appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).