tourmaline
\tuʁ.ma.lin\
The verdict
“tourmaline” is uncommon French (frequency #70,279 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,279
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe de minéraux de la famille des silicates, groupe des cyclosilicates. De formule chimique Al_6Y_3Na[(Si_6O_18)(BO_3)₃(OH,F)₄], avec Y=Mg, (Fe, Mn) ou (Li, Al).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourmaline · tourmaline · French
tourmaline · rank #70,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,279
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toucherais
Nearest frequency peer: toucherais (-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 « tourmaline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tirerai
tirerai
29,725 corpus weight
- toucherais
toucherais
29,723 corpus weight
- tourmaline
tourmaline
29,722 corpus weight
- tracté
tracté
29,721 corpus weight
- transcript
transcript
29,720 corpus weight
- transposant
transposant
29,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tourmaline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourmaline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.ma.lin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tourmaline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tourmaline is uncommon French at frequency #70,279 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ.ma.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupe de minéraux de la famille des silicates, groupe des cyclosilicates. De formule chimique Al_6Y_3Na[(Si_6O_18)(BO_3)₃(OH,F)₄], avec Y=Mg, (Fe, Mn) ou (Li, Al).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tourmaline, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tourmaline, spelled T-O-U-R-M-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Groupe de minéraux de la famille des silicates, groupe des cyclosilicates. De formule chimique Al_6Y_3Na[(Si_6O_18)(BO_3)₃(OH,F)₄], avec Y=Mg, (Fe, Mn) ou (Li, Al).
This word in other languages
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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