tourelle
\tu.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“tourelle” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,843. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,843
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite tour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourelle · tourelle · French
tourelle · rank #30,843 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,843
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Torino
Nearest frequency peer: Torino (-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 « tourelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tolstoï
Tolstoï
69,161 corpus weight
- Tolède
Tolède
69,160 corpus weight
- Torino
Torino
69,159 corpus weight
- tourelle
tourelle
69,158 corpus weight
- toxine
toxine
69,157 corpus weight
- trav
trav
69,156 corpus weight
What this shows « tourelle » 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 | tourelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tu.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tourelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tourelle (IPA \tu.ʁɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,843 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tourelle, with forms such as "oturelle", "toruelle", and "touerlle". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tutelle", "truelle", "tourette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tourelle, spelled T-O-U-R-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petite tour.
- 2Tour cuirassée, tournant souvent sur elle-même, et qui sert à abriter des canons.
- 3Poste de mitraillage de certains bombardiers.
- 4Ensemble de tuyaux verticaux du buffet arrangés en forme de tour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tourelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette tourelle est répétée vers le jardin par une autre à cinq pans, terminée en cul-de-four, et qui supporte un clocheton, au lieu d’être coiffée, comme sa sœur, d’une poivrière.
Hermann était, […], resté debout contre un des supports massifs de la cheminée, écoutant le bruit du vent dans les hautes tourelles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturelle
- toruelle
- touerlle
- tourele
- tourelel
- tourlele
- tourrelle
- ttourelle
- tuorelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tourelle - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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