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

#155
“toutes” frequency rank
#36,628
“tte” frequency rank
36783
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature toutes tte
Definition Féminin pluriel de tout. Toute.

Same sound, different letters: toutes vs tte

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters. toutes runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against tte's 3 (CCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
toutes
3 ch
tte

Homophone desk: toutes vs tte

This is the hard kind. toutes and tte are pronounced identically (\tut\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36783, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

toutes is recorded at frequency rank #155, classified as anadj, pronounced \tut\. tte is at rank #36,628, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tut\.

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 36783, this pair ranks #267,170 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of toutes vs tte

Shared letters: et. Private to "toutes": osu. Private to "tte": -.

"toutes" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "tte" · 3 letters · shape CCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • toutes ← otutes · totues · touets · toutess · toutse · touttes · ttoutes · tuotes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "toutes" and "tte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\tut\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "toutes" or "tte" show up more?
"toutes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #155 in our French list, against #36,628 for "tte". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "toutes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #267,170 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "toutes" and "tte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tif vs tte". 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 #267,170 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