# Tours

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #5,745

## Definitions
1. A city, the largest in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France and the capital of Indre-et-Loire department.

## Etymology
From French Tours, from Latin Turonum, from Turones, the name of the area's Gaulish inhabitants in antiquity.

## Easily confused with
- **tur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-tur)
- **turn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-turn)
- **toys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-toys)
- **turf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-turf)
- **Turk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-turk)
- **tout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-tout)
- **turd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-turd)
- **tugs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-tugs)
- **turns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-turns)
- **towns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-towns)
- **truss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-truss)
- **Truro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-truro)
- **towers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tours-vs-towers)
- **tor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tor-vs-tours)
- **TOS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tos-vs-tours)
- **tour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tour-vs-tours)
- **thus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thus-vs-tours)
- **tons** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tons-vs-tours)
- **torn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/torn-vs-tours)
- **tops** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tops-vs-tours)

## Common misspellings (6)
`oturs`, `tourrs`, `tourss`, `tousr`, `ttours`, `tuors`

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