tourney
/ˈtɝni/noun
tourney is spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-Y: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tourney means “A tournament” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tourney is tourneys or tournies.
How many letters and syllables are in tourney?
| Letters | 7: T-O-U-R-N-E-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tourney?
Tourney appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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 tourney?
- US /ˈtɝni/
- US /ˈtʊɚni/
- UK /ˈtʊə(ɹ)ni/
Tourney has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tourney.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tourney?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tourney from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹni/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tourney
- tourneys plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- tournies plural
- tourneying participle, present
- tourneyed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tourney mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tournament.
By a knight of ghostes & shadowes, I sumon’d am to Tourney. ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
verb
- 1
archaicTo take part in a tournament.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tourney come from?
From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).