lance de tournoi
\lɑ̃s də tuʁ.nwa\
The verdict
“lance de tournoi” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arme à long bois utilisées par les chevaliers lors des tournois équestres ou joutes. Sa forme varie suivant les époques notamment au niveau de la protection du poignet et de la rigidité du fût.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lance de tournoi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃s də tuʁ.nwa\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lance de tournoi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lance de tournoi is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃s də tuʁ.nwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for lance de tournoi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 lance de tournoi, spelled L-A-N-C-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-R-N-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme à long bois utilisées par les chevaliers lors des tournois équestres ou joutes. Sa forme varie suivant les époques notamment au niveau de la protection du poignet et de la rigidité du fût.
- 2Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de dard, épieu, javelot, lance et pique.
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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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-C-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-R-N-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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