faire tourner
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
faire tourner is aFrenchverb. It means: Passer aux autres personnes, distribuer (de la nourriture, une boisson, une cigarette). Pronounced \fɛʁ tuʁ.ne\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire tourner is 13 letters long, classified as averb, 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faire tourner in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faire tourner, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -T-O-U-R-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Nearby French words
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