Tournai
"tournai" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tournai” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and municipality in Hainaut province, Wallonia, Belgium.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tournai · Tournai · English
Tournai · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tournai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tournai” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tournai is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and municipality in Hainaut province, Wallonia, Belgium.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tournai in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Tournai. The correct English form is Tournai, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-I.
Definition
- 1A city and municipality in Hainaut province, Wallonia, Belgium.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Tournai.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.