tornade
\tɔʁ.nad\
The verdict
“tornade” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,701. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,701
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourrasque violente en tourbillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tornade · tornade · French
tornade · rank #19,701 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,701
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tombera
Nearest frequency peer: tombera (-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 « tornade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tenace
tenace
80,303 corpus weight
- TM
TM
80,302 corpus weight
- tombera
tombera
80,301 corpus weight
- tornade
tornade
80,300 corpus weight
- torts
torts
80,299 corpus weight
- tragiques
tragiques
80,298 corpus weight
What this shows « tornade » 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 | tornade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.nad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tornade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tornade (IPA \tɔʁ.nad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,701 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tornade, with forms such as "otrnade", "tonrade", and "torande". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "trade", "triade", "torride", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tornade, spelled T-O-R-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Bourrasque violente en tourbillon.
- 2Quelque chose qui emporte par sa violence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tornade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais qu’une tornade, qu’un grain même éclatât à ce moment, et c’était la mort presque immédiate.
Lorsque je me suis retournée, j'ai aperçu Mina qui se dirigeait vers moi à la vitesse d'une tornade, le foulard bleu pétrole noué autour de son cou se soulevant comme les ailes d'un oiseau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrnade
- tonrade
- torande
- tornadde
- tornaed
- torndae
- tornnade
- torrnade
- tronade
- ttornade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tornade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).