tournage

\tuʁ.naʒ\

/\tuʁ.naʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“tournage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,647
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de façonner des pièces mécaniques ou d’un autre matériau à l’aide d’un tour mécanique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tournage · tournage · French

tournage · rank #3,647 · 11 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,647
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH suppression

Nearest frequency peer: suppression (-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 « tournage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tournage » 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).

tournage vs tourné
63% similar
tournage vs tournée
75% similar
tournage vs Tournai
63% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tournage »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « suppression » (#3,646), « transformer » (#3,648), « suivez » (#3,645). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tournage » est au #3,647. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around tournage (IPA \tuʁ.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,647 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tournage, with forms such as "oturnage", "torunage", and "tounrage". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tourné", "tournée", "Tournai", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tournage, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-G-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tournage de freins automobiles usagés au Québec.
  2. Elle téléphone de temps en temps aux uns et autres... mais surtout elle surveille son Léon qu'il aille pas tringler les frimantes pendant le tournage. Elle vient aussi mettre son grain dans le scénario, elle en papote avec Gloria.

Synonyms

chariotagedécolletage

This word in other languages

filming(English)rodaje(Español)Drehen(Deutsch)filmagem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oturnage
  • torunage
  • tounrage
  • tourange
  • tournaeg
  • tournagge
  • tourngae
  • tournnage
  • tourrnage
  • ttournage
  • tuornage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tournage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oturnage2torunage2tounrage2tourange2tournaeg2tournagge1tourngae2tournnage1
Edit distance from "tournage"

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 "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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

souffrir#3,643émotions#3,654relative#3,638registre#3,637

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

sortant11 variantsservent11 variantsapparence11 variantschaînes11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list