torturer
\tɔʁ.ty.ʁe\
The verdict
“torturer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,190. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,190
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire éprouver une torture, soumettre à la torture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torturer · torturer · French
torturer · rank #21,190 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,190
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torchon
Nearest frequency peer: torchon (-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 « torturer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- thoracique
thoracique
78,814 corpus weight
- Toni
Toni
78,813 corpus weight
- torchon
torchon
78,812 corpus weight
- torturer
torturer
78,811 corpus weight
- toto
toto
78,810 corpus weight
- Tourcoing
Tourcoing
78,809 corpus weight
What this shows « torturer » 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 | torturer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.ty.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « torturer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around torturer (IPA \tɔʁ.ty.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,190 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for torturer, with forms such as "otrturer", "torrturer", and "tortruer". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "torturés", "tortue", "torture", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is torturer, spelled T-O-R-T-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire éprouver une torture, soumettre à la torture.
- 2Tourmenter.
- 3Tordre, déformer un objet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torturer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, je commençai à torturer le colporteur. Je lui arrachai, un par un, tous les ongles des mains et tous les ongles des pieds…
Des nuits entières, durant un mois, j'ai entendu hurler des hommes que l'on torturait, et leurs cris résonnent pour toujours dans ma mémoire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrturer
- torrturer
- tortruer
- tortturer
- tortuerr
- torturerr
- torturrer
- torutrer
- totrurer
- troturer
- ttorturer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of torturer - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).