torture
\tɔʁ.tyʁ\
The verdict
“torture” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,249
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souffrance cruelle, tourment qu’on fait souffrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torture · torture · French
torture · rank #6,249 · 10 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,249
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transmis
Nearest frequency peer: transmis (+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 « torture »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- technologiq…
technologique
93,755 corpus weight
- tendu
tendu
93,754 corpus weight
- torture
torture
93,752 corpus weight
- transmis
transmis
93,751 corpus weight
- tueur
tueur
93,750 corpus weight
- verrez
verrez
93,749 corpus weight
What this shows « torture » 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 | torture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « torture »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around torture (IPA \tɔʁ.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,249 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for torture, with forms such as "otrture", "torrture", and "tortrue". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "touré", "tournure", "torturer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is torture, spelled T-O-R-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Souffrance cruelle, tourment qu’on fait souffrir.
- 2Souffrance physique qu’on inflige à quelqu’un par voie de justice.
- 3Forte contrariété ; embarras pénible ; vive impatience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se flattait, grâce aux trente hommes résolus qu’il commandait, de s’emparer facilement des deux chasseurs qu’il se proposait de faire mourir dans des tortures atroces.
Quand j’atteignais un rat d’un bon coup de fouet, le ronge-maille sifflait avec fureur, hérissait tous ses poils et s’élançait avec désespoir contre le fouet lui-même, instrument de sa torture ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrture
- torrture
- tortrue
- tortture
- tortuer
- torturre
- torutre
- totrure
- troture
- ttorture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of torture - 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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