tournante
\tuʁ.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“tournante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,589
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Viol en réunion : viol commis par plusieurs personnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournante · tournante · French
tournante · rank #20,589 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,589
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH totalitaire
Nearest frequency peer: totalitaire (-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 « tournante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tanks
tanks
79,415 corpus weight
- tirages
tirages
79,414 corpus weight
- totalitaire
totalitaire
79,413 corpus weight
- tournante
tournante
79,412 corpus weight
- trafics
trafics
79,411 corpus weight
- transportée
transportée
79,410 corpus weight
What this shows « tournante » 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 | tournante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tournante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tournante (IPA \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,589 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tournante, with forms such as "oturnante", "torunante", and "tounrante". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "tournent", "tournants", "tournantes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tournante, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Viol en réunion : viol commis par plusieurs personnes.
- 2Variante du jeu dans lequel les joueurs tournent autour de la table ou du terrain : ils changent de côté après chaque coup.
- 3Torsade de fil, parfois d’or ou d’argent, qui fait le tour d’une épaulette de militaire.
- 4Fusée qui s’élève en tournant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tournante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le procès dit des tournantes de Fontenay-sous-Bois se tient depuis trois semaines, à huis clos, devant la cour d’assises de Créteil (Val-de-Marne).
Cela peut arriver à n’importe qui, lors d’une tournante au ping-pong, de jouer avec ses mains ou des objets insolites car il n’y a pas assez de raquettes pour les joueurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturnante
- torunante
- tounrante
- tourannte
- tournanet
- tournannte
- tournantte
- tournatne
- tournnante
- tournnate
- tourrnante
- ttournante
- tuornante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tournante - 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 "tournante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).