tournante

\tuʁ.nɑ̃t\

/\tuʁ.nɑ̃t\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tournante » 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).

tournante vs tournent
78% similar
tournante vs tournants
89% similar
tournante vs tournantes
90% similar

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

Key facts for tournante
PropertyValue
Headwordtournante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tuʁ.nɑ̃t\
Letters9
Frequency rank#20,589
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tournante »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).tournantese 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 « totalitaire » (#20,588), « trafics » (#20,590), « tirages » (#20,587). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tournante » est au #20,589. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Viol en réunion : viol commis par plusieurs personnes.
  2. 2
    Variante du jeu dans lequel les joueurs tournent autour de la table ou du terrain : ils changent de côté après chaque coup.
  3. 3
    Torsade de fil, parfois d’or ou d’argent, qui fait le tour d’une épaulette de militaire.
  4. 4
    Fusée qui s’élève en tournant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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).
  2. 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.

oturnante2torunante2tounrante2tourannte2tournanet2tournannte1tournantte1tournatne2
Edit distance from "tournante"

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 "tournante"?
"tournante" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\.
What does "tournante" mean?
As a noun, "tournante" means: Viol en réunion : viol commis par plusieurs personnes.
What words are commonly confused with "tournante"?
"tournante" is commonly confused with "tournent", "tournants", "tournantes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tournante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tournante" is \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tournante" come from?
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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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list