tourer
\tu.ʁe\
The verdict
“tourer” is uncommon French (frequency #85,333 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,333
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plier plusieurs fois un pâton de pâte feuilletée après l’avoir allongé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourer · tourer · French
tourer · rank #85,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,333
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH touffus
Nearest frequency peer: touffus (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tourer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tombstone
tombstone
14,673 corpus weight
- topinambour
topinambour
14,672 corpus weight
- torque
torque
14,671 corpus weight
- touffus
touffus
14,669 corpus weight
- tourer
tourer
14,668 corpus weight
- traînez
traînez
14,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tourer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tourer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tourer is uncommon French at frequency #85,333 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tu.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plier plusieurs fois un pâton de pâte feuilletée après l’avoir allongé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tourer, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tourer, spelled T-O-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Plier plusieurs fois un pâton de pâte feuilletée après l’avoir allongé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tourer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il faut tout dire, à cette époque nous étions dans la bonne saison, c'est-à-dire l'hiver, et cela contribua singulièrement à la réussite de l'opération ; autrement, dans l'été, je ne lui eusse pas laissé tourer son feuilletage, il n'eût pu lui-même faire cette partie de l'opération; […].
Retirez bien l’excédent de farine qui pourrait se former lorsque vous tourez la pâte. S'il y a trop de farine, les couches de détrempe ne se colleront pas entre elles et vous aurez du mal à réaliser le feuilletage.
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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