# tournament

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtʊənəmənt/ · frequency rank #2,705

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.

## Common misspellings (15)
`oturnament`, `torunament`, `tounrament`, `touranment`, `tournaemnt`, `tournamennt`, `tournamentt`, `tournametn`, `tournamment`, `tournamnet`, `tournmaent`, `tournnament`, `tourrnament`, `ttournament`, `tuornament`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tournament