tourelles
\tu.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“tourelles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,491. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,491
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tourelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourelles · tourelles · French
tourelles · rank #33,491 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,491
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tornades
Nearest frequency peer: tornades (-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 « tourelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tg
tg
66,514 corpus weight
- thought
thought
66,512 corpus weight
- tornades
tornades
66,511 corpus weight
- tourelles
tourelles
66,510 corpus weight
- tousser
tousser
66,509 corpus weight
- tribulations
tribulations
66,507 corpus weight
What this shows « tourelles » 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 | tourelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tu.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tourelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tourelles (IPA \tu.ʁɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,491 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tourelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tourelles, with forms such as "oturelles", "toruelles", and "touerlles". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tourelle", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tourelles, spelled T-O-U-R-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tourelle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturelles
- toruelles
- touerlles
- tourelels
- toureles
- tourelless
- tourellse
- tourleles
- tourrelles
- ttourelles
- tuorelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tourelles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).