Ton-Tonne | Commonly Confused Words

Ton

/tʌn/

A very large amount or weight of something, typically equivalent to 2,000 pounds or 1,000 kilograms

He lifted a ton of bricks.I've got a ton of emails to answer.

This word has no antonyms

/tʌn/

A unit of weight equal to 1,000 kilograms, commonly used in countries that use the metric system

The cargo ship can carry up to 50,000 tonnes.Each turbine weighs nearly 150 tonnes.Farmers collect about 3 tonnes of wheat per hectare.

Ton is primarily used in the United States to refer to a unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds.
Tonne is a metric unit of weight used primarily outside the US, equivalent to 1,000 kilograms.
Remember that tonne ends with an e just like metre and litre, which are also metric units.
In UK English and other variants, ton can sometimes also mean 2,240 pounds if referring to the long ton.
Both words refer to large weights, but one is for the metric system and the other for the imperial system.