porte tournante
\pɔʁt tuʁ.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“porte tournante” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porte à plusieurs vantaux permettant d’éviter les courants d’air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-tournante · porte tournante · French
porte tournante · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | porte tournante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁt tuʁ.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porte tournante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porte tournante is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁt tuʁ.nɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Porte à plusieurs vantaux permettant d’éviter les courants d’air.".
No misspelling variants are generated for porte tournante in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is porte tournante, spelled P-O-R-T-E- -T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Porte à plusieurs vantaux permettant d’éviter les courants d’air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porte tournante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Paolo m'attend déjà devant les portes tournantes pour la pause-déjeuner. Il a son regard agacé des jours où je ne suis pas parfaitement à l'heure.
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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.