Touraine
\tu.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“Touraine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,679
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province historique française dont la capitale était Tours, qui correspondait à l’essentiel de l’actuel département d’Indre-et-Loire, ainsi que d’une partie de l’Indre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touraine · Touraine · French
Touraine · rank #11,679 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,679
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tirées
Nearest frequency peer: tirées (-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 « Touraine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- thriller
thriller
88,325 corpus weight
- tiroir
tiroir
88,324 corpus weight
- tirées
tirées
88,323 corpus weight
- Touraine
Touraine
88,322 corpus weight
- traction
traction
88,321 corpus weight
- traitées
traitées
88,320 corpus weight
What this shows « Touraine » 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 | Touraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tu.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Touraine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Touraine (IPA \tu.ʁɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,679 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Province historique française dont la capitale était Tours, qui correspondait à l’essentiel de l’actuel département d’Indre-et-Loire, ainsi que d’une partie de l’Indre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Touraine, with forms such as "oturaine", "toruaine", and "touarine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tourné", "traîne", "turbine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Touraine, spelled T-O-U-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Province historique française dont la capitale était Tours, qui correspondait à l’essentiel de l’actuel département d’Indre-et-Loire, ainsi que d’une partie de l’Indre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Touraine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En quittant la table d’écarté, j’aperçus un grand d’Espagne, un Afrancesado en exil, arrivé depuis quinze jours en Touraine.
En novembre 1814, la famille Balzac quitte les doux paysages de la Touraine pour s’installer à Paris, 40, rue du Temple, dans le Marais.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturaine
- toruaine
- touarine
- touraien
- tourainne
- touranie
- touriane
- tourraine
- ttouraine
- tuoraine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Touraine - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).