pourtour
\puʁ.tuʁ\
The verdict
“pourtour” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,724
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour ou circuit de certaines choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourtour · pourtour · French
pourtour · rank #24,724 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,724
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polygamie
Nearest frequency peer: polygamie (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourtour »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Poincaré
Poincaré
75,280 corpus weight
- polygamie
polygamie
75,278 corpus weight
- pourtour
pourtour
75,277 corpus weight
- PPP
PPP
75,276 corpus weight
- primauté
primauté
75,275 corpus weight
- productives
productives
75,274 corpus weight
What this shows « pourtour » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourtour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puʁ.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourtour »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pourtour (IPA \puʁ.tuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,724 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourtour, with forms such as "opurtour", "porutour", and "pourotur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "poutou", "pourvoir", "porteur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pourtour, spelled P-O-U-R-T-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Tour ou circuit de certaines choses.
- 2Partie qui fait le tour d’un lieu.
- 3Nef entourant l’abside ; déambulatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourtour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce pavillon, cette colonne a tant de pourtour. — Pourtour extérieur, intérieur.
Seize colonnes de marbre ornent le pourtour de cette rotonde.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurtour
- porutour
- pourotur
- pourrtour
- pourtoru
- pourtourr
- pourttour
- pourtuor
- poutrour
- ppourtour
- puortour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourtour - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pourtour", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).