Tourcoing
\tuʁ.kwɛ̃\
The verdict
“Tourcoing” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,192
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourcoing · Tourcoing · French
Tourcoing · rank #21,192 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,192
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toto
Nearest frequency peer: toto (-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 « Tourcoing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- torchon
torchon
78,812 corpus weight
- torturer
torturer
78,811 corpus weight
- toto
toto
78,810 corpus weight
- Tourcoing
Tourcoing
78,809 corpus weight
- training
training
78,808 corpus weight
- triathlon
triathlon
78,807 corpus weight
What this shows « Tourcoing » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tourcoing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.kwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tourcoing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Tourcoing (IPA \tuʁ.kwɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,192 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tourcoing, with forms such as "oturcoing", "torucoing", and "toucroing". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tourcoing, spelled T-O-U-R-C-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tourcoing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il s’appliqua, pendant l’entr’acte, à corriger mentalement, d’après ce qu’il venait d’entendre, un certain accent provincial qui gâtait sa diction. « La voix d’un évêque de Tourcoing, pensait-il, ne doit pas sentir en aigreur le petit vin de nos coteaux du Centre. »
Or les écheveaux à numéroter à Tourcoing sont généralement d'un dévidage difficile, contrairement à ce qui se passe à Roubaix.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturcoing
- torucoing
- toucroing
- tourccoing
- tourciong
- tourcoign
- tourcoingg
- tourcoinng
- tourconig
- tourocing
- tourrcoing
- ttourcoing
- tuorcoing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tourcoing - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tourcoing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).