torre

/\ˈtɔ.rːe\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#37,585

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

torre is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe terriñ. Pronounced \ˈtɔ.rːe\. Often confused with tre and tour.

Key facts for torre
PropertyValue
Headwordtorre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈtɔ.rːe\
Letters5
Frequency rank#37,585
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of torre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for torre is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈtɔ.rːe\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,585 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe terriñ.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for torre, with forms such as "otrre", "tore", and "torer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "tour", "tort", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 torre, spelled T-O-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe terriñ.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: otrre,tore,torer,trore,ttorre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for torre

Misspelling Variants of "torre"

otrre5tore4torer5trore5ttorre6
Misspelling Variants of "torre"

Frequency rank: #37,585 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "torre"?
"torre" is spelled T-O-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈtɔ.rːe\.
What does "torre" mean?
As a verb, "torre" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe terriñ.
What words are commonly confused with "torre"?
"torre" is commonly confused with "tre", "tour", "tort". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "torre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "torre" is \ˈtɔ.rːe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "torre" come from?
"torre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.