Which to use
“touts” and “tutos” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,573
- “touts” frequency rank
- #25,846
- “tutos” frequency rank
- 55419
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touts | tutos |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de tout. | Pluriel de tuto. |
Where the eye mixes touts and tutos
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. touts (CVVCC) and tutos (CVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Why the eye confuses touts with tutos
A purely visual mix-up. touts (\tu\) and tutos (\ty.to\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55419, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touts is recorded at frequency rank #29,573, classified as anoun, pronounced \tu\. tutos is at rank #25,846, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ty.to\.
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 55419, this pair ranks #127,560 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of touts vs tutos
Shared letters: ostu. Private to "touts": -. Private to "tutos": -.
"touts" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "tutos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "touts" for "tutos" ever safe?
Frequency check: "touts" vs "tutos" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "touts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tutos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #127,560 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touts" and "tutos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tos vs touts". 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 #127,560 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.