tortionnaire
\tɔʁ.sjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“tortionnaire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,495
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui met à la torture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tortionnaire · tortionnaire · French
tortionnaire · rank #46,495 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,495
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tords
Nearest frequency peer: tords (-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 « tortionnaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tombais
tombais
53,509 corpus weight
- topless
topless
53,508 corpus weight
- tords
tords
53,507 corpus weight
- tortionnaire
tortionnaire
53,506 corpus weight
- tournants
tournants
53,505 corpus weight
- tourte
tourte
53,504 corpus weight
What this shows « tortionnaire » 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 | tortionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #46,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tortionnaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around tortionnaire (IPA \tɔʁ.sjɔ.nɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,495 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui met à la torture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for tortionnaire, with forms such as "otrtionnaire", "toritonnaire", and "torrtionnaire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tortionnaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tortionnaire, spelled T-O-R-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui met à la torture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tortionnaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des procédés tortionnaires.
Cette pension, connue sous le nom de la Maison Vauquer, admet également des hommes et des femmes, des jeunes gens et des vieillards, sans que jamais la médisance ait attaqué les mœurs de ce respectable établissement. (…). En quelque discrédit que soit tombé le mot drame par la manière abusive et tortionnaire dont il a été prodigué dans ces temps de doulou…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrtionnaire
- toritonnaire
- torrtionnaire
- tortinonaire
- tortionaire
- tortionanire
- tortionnaier
- tortionnairre
- tortionnarie
- tortionniare
- tortoinnaire
- torttionnaire
- totrionnaire
- trotionnaire
- ttortionnaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tortionnaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).