faire tourner
\fɛʁ tuʁ.ne\
The verdict
“faire tourner” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Passer aux autres personnes, distribuer (de la nourriture, une boisson, une cigarette).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire tourner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ tuʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire tourner” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire tourner is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ tuʁ.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
faire tourner doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is faire tourner, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -T-O-U-R-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer aux autres personnes, distribuer (de la nourriture, une boisson, une cigarette).
- 2Faire fonctionner à vide un appareil pour l’essayer ou, pour un moteur à explosion, le faire chauffer.
- 3Maintenir en état de marche, en fonctionnement.
- 4Réaliser un calcul, une simulation sur un ordinateur.
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.
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Using “faire tourner”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -T-O-U-R-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ tuʁ.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.