tourna

\tuʁ.na\

/\tuʁ.na\/ verb

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The verdict

“tourna” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,304. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,304
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tourner.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tourna · tourna · French

tourna · rank #20,304 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,304
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH touchez

Nearest frequency peer: touchez (-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 « tourna »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tourna » 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).

tourna vs turn
67% similar
tourna vs tours
67% similar
tourna vs tourné
83% similar

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

Key facts for tourna
PropertyValue
Headwordtourna
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tuʁ.na\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,304
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tourna »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tournase place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « touchez » (#20,303), « touchera » (#20,302), « télécoms » (#20,306). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tourna » est au #20,304. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around tourna (IPA \tuʁ.na\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,304 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tourner.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tourna, with forms such as "oturna", "toruna", and "tounra". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "turn", "tours", "tourné", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tourna, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tourner.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le légiste tourna et retourna le préservatif ensacheté entre ses doigts.
  2. Il se tourna vers Capevirade toujours à demi absent de ce débat où se réglait son sort, pareil au cobaye qui rongeote, indifférent, tandis que de doctes personnages s’interrogent autour de lui sur les virus et les microbes qu’on lui injectera.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oturna
  • toruna
  • tounra
  • touran
  • tournna
  • tourrna
  • ttourna
  • tuorna

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

oturna2toruna2tounra2touran2tournna1tourrna1ttourna1tuorna2
Edit distance from "tourna"

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 "tourna"?
"tourna" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ.na\.
What does "tourna" mean?
As a verb, "tourna" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tourner.
What words are commonly confused with "tourna"?
"tourna" is commonly confused with "turn", "tours", "tourné". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tourna"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tourna" is \tuʁ.na\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tourna" come from?
"tourna" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list