tournage

/\tuʁ.naʒ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,647

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

tournage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de façonner des pièces mécaniques ou d’un autre matériau à l’aide d’un tour mécanique. Pronounced \tuʁ.naʒ\. It ranks #3,647 in French word frequency. Often confused with tourné and tournée.

Key facts for tournage
PropertyValue
Headwordtournage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tuʁ.naʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,647
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tournage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tournage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ.naʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,647 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tournage, with forms such as "oturnage", "torunage", and "tounrage". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tourné", "tournée", "Tournai", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tournage, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de façonner des pièces mécaniques ou d’un autre matériau à l’aide d’un tour mécanique.
  2. 2
    Activité de filmer les acteurs et décors d’un film, ainsi que toutes les phases de réalisation.
  3. 3
    En poterie, le tournage est une technique consistant à utiliser un tour, outil comprenant un plateau animé d’un mouvement rotatif, pour confectionner une poterie.
  4. 4
    (Domaine ferroviaire) Action de placer un engin ferroviaire dans le sens le plus propice à la bonne marche.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oturnage,torunage,tounrage,tourange,tournaeg,tournagge,tourngae,tournnage,tourrnage,ttournage,tuornage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tournage

Misspelling Variants of "tournage"

oturnage8torunage8tounrage8tourange8tournaeg8tournagge9tourngae8tournnage9
Misspelling Variants of "tournage"

Frequency rank: #3,647 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tournage"?
"tournage" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ.naʒ\.
What does "tournage" mean?
As a noun, "tournage" means: Action de façonner des pièces mécaniques ou d’un autre matériau à l’aide d’un tour mécanique.
What words are commonly confused with "tournage"?
"tournage" is commonly confused with "tourné", "tournée", "Tournai". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tournage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tournage" is \tuʁ.naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tournage" come from?
"tournage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.