tourment
\tuʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“tourment” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,073
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supplice, torture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourment · tourment · French
tourment · rank #39,073 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,073
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Thésée
Nearest frequency peer: Thésée (-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 « tourment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- thermal
thermal
60,931 corpus weight
- Thom
Thom
60,930 corpus weight
- Thésée
Thésée
60,929 corpus weight
- tourment
tourment
60,928 corpus weight
- travée
travée
60,927 corpus weight
- trentenaires
trentenaires
60,926 corpus weight
What this shows « tourment » 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 | tourment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tourment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tourment (IPA \tuʁ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,073 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tourment, with forms such as "oturment", "torument", and "toumrent". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "tournant", "tournent", "tourments", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tourment, spelled T-O-U-R-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Supplice, torture.
- 2Violente douleur corporelle.
- 3Grande peine morale, grand souci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tourment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Outre ces tourments ordinaires, on voit dans les procédures faites contre les Templiers qu’ils en subirent de plus cruels encore. En quelques pays, on leur arrachait les dents ; en d’autres, on leur faisait calciner les pieds ; ailleurs, en leur suspendant des poids à différentes parties du corps, on ne craignait pas de rendre la torture même impudique.
Depuis lors, ce prince, en proie à une fièvre brûlante et aux tourments de la goutte, qu’il supportait avec une grande patience, et désillusionné par l’âge et par de cruelles expériences des choses d’ici-bas, ne s’occupa plus que de ses devoirs de chrétien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturment
- torument
- toumrent
- touremnt
- tourmennt
- tourmentt
- tourmetn
- tourmment
- tourmnet
- tourrment
- ttourment
- tuorment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tourment - 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 "tourment", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).