faire tourner
\fɛʁ tuʁ.ne\
The verdict
“faire tourner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer aux autres personnes, distribuer (de la nourriture, une boisson, une cigarette).
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-tourner · faire tourner · French
faire tourner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire tourner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire tourner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ tuʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire tourner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il prit quelques lattes et fit tourner.
Je mis le moteur en mouvement, le fis tourner quelque minutes, puis je tirai sur la manette des gaz pour démarrer.
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.