tournament
tour·na·ment/ˈtʊɹnəmənt/noun
tournament is spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-M-E-N-T: 10 letters and 3 syllables (tour·na·ment). It appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tournament means “During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tournament is tournaments.
How many letters and syllables are in tournament?
| Letters | 10: T-O-U-R-N-A-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: tour·na·ment |
| In writing | 36 times per million words; the 2,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is tournament?
Tournament appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tournament?
- UK /ˈtʊənəmənt/
- UK /ˈtɔːnəmənt/
- US /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/
Tournament has 3 syllables, split tour·na·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tournament.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tournament
- tournaments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tournament mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
- 2
A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
- 3
A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tournament in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tournoi |
| German | Turnier , Digraph |
| Spanish | torneo, justa , campeonato |
| Portuguese | torneio |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tournament come from?
From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).