tournantes

/\tuʁ.nɑ̃t\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#40,537

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

tournantes is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin pluriel de tournant. Pronounced \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\. Often confused with tournants and tournant.

Key facts for tournantes
PropertyValue
Headwordtournantes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\tuʁ.nɑ̃t\
Letters10
Frequency rank#40,537
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tournantes is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,537 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin pluriel de tournant.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for tournantes, with forms such as "oturnantes", "torunantes", and "tounrantes". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tournants", "tournant", "tournante", 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 tournantes, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de tournant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oturnantes,torunantes,tounrantes,touranntes,tournanets,tournanntes,tournantess,tournantse,tournanttes,tournatnes,tournnantes,tournnates,tourrnantes,ttournantes,tuornantes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tournantes

Misspelling Variants of "tournantes"

oturnantes10torunantes10tounrantes10touranntes10tournanets10tournanntes11tournantess11tournantse10
Misspelling Variants of "tournantes"

Frequency rank: #40,537 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tournantes"?
"tournantes" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\.
What does "tournantes" mean?
As an adj, "tournantes" means: Féminin pluriel de tournant.
What words are commonly confused with "tournantes"?
"tournantes" is commonly confused with "tournants", "tournant", "tournante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tournantes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tournantes" is \tuʁ.nɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tournantes" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.