tourisme

\tu.ʁism\

/\tu.ʁism\/ noun

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The verdict

“tourisme” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,343
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de voyager pour son plaisir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tourisme · tourisme · French

tourisme · rank #2,343 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,343
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tombé

Nearest frequency peer: tombé (-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 « tourisme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tourisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tourisme vs turismo
75% similar
tourisme vs touriste
88% similar
tourisme vs touristes
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tourisme
PropertyValue
Headwordtourisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tu.ʁism\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,343
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tourisme »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tourismese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tombé » (#2,342), « traiter » (#2,344), « talent » (#2,341). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tourisme » est au #2,343. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around tourisme (IPA \tu.ʁism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,343 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tourisme, with forms such as "oturisme", "toruisme", and "touirsme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "turismo", "touriste", "touristes", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tourisme, spelled T-O-U-R-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de voyager pour son plaisir.
  2. 2
    Ce qui a rapport aux voyages de touristes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tourisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ils se déplaceraient uniquement pour vérifier que le paysage ressemblait bien à la brochure fournie par le tour operator. Le tourisme transforme le voyageur en contrôleur, la découverte en vérification, l’étonnement en repérage, le routard en saint Thomas.
  2. Le narco-tourisme s’est surtout développé dans le secteur de Kafountine, qui bénéficie à la fois de la production locale de cannabis des îles Karone et de la proximité de l’aéroport international de Banjul (la capitale gambienne), moyen d’accès plus rapide et plus sûr que par Ziguinchor. Le tourisme sexuel s’est quant à lui développé plus particulièrement…

This word in other languages

tourism(English)turismo(Español)Tourismus(Deutsch)turismo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oturisme
  • toruisme
  • touirsme
  • tourimse
  • tourisem
  • tourismme
  • tourissme
  • tourrisme
  • toursime
  • ttourisme
  • tuorisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tourisme - 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.

oturisme2toruisme2touirsme2tourimse2tourisem2tourismme1tourissme1tourrisme1
Edit distance from "tourisme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tourisme"?
"tourisme" is spelled T-O-U-R-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.ʁism\.
What does "tourisme" mean?
As a noun, "tourisme" means: Action de voyager pour son plaisir.
What words are commonly confused with "tourisme"?
"tourisme" is commonly confused with "turismo", "touriste", "touristes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tourisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tourisme" is \tu.ʁism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tourisme" come from?
"tourisme" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tourisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

semblent#2,339salariés#2,338archives#2,351chansons#2,354

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Original11 variantsdomaines11 variantsdéteste11 variantsempereur11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list