touriste
\tu.ʁist\
The verdict
“touriste” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,493
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui voyage pour son plaisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touriste · touriste · French
touriste · rank #12,493 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,493
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Togo
Nearest frequency peer: Togo (-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 « touriste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- talk
talk
87,511 corpus weight
- théâtres
théâtres
87,510 corpus weight
- Togo
Togo
87,509 corpus weight
- touriste
touriste
87,508 corpus weight
- Tristan
Tristan
87,507 corpus weight
- true
true
87,506 corpus weight
What this shows « touriste » 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 | touriste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tu.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « touriste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around touriste (IPA \tu.ʁist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,493 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 touriste, with forms such as "oturiste", "toruiste", and "touirste". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "triste", "tourte", "touristes", 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 touriste, spelled T-O-U-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui voyage pour son plaisir.
- 2Dilettante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touriste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du touriste, il n’avait ni la curiosité ni la hâte. Il préférait découvrir les détails lentement, peu à peu, au hasard de la vie et des promenades quotidiennes, sans but et sans intention.
L’avion allemand qui passe là-haut ne peut noter dans ce coin de village qu’un touriste ou un indiscret.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturiste
- toruiste
- touirste
- touriset
- tourisste
- touristte
- touritse
- tourriste
- toursite
- ttouriste
- tuoriste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touriste - 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 "touriste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).