tourbillonnaire
French, adjective/tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛʁ/
tourbillonnaire is spelled T-O-U-R-B-I-L-L-O-N-N-A-I-R-E (15 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 162,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tourbillonnaire is a French adjective meaning “vortical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à un tourbillon”.
What does tourbillonnaire mean in English?
adjective
- 1
vortical
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à un tourbillon.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tourbillonnaire
- tourbillonnaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tourbillonnaire?
- /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛʁ/
- \tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tourbillonnaire in French?
tourbillonnaire appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).