tournants

\tuʁ.nɑ̃\

/\tuʁ.nɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“tournants” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,496
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de tournant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tournants · tournants · French

tournants · rank #46,496 · 14 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,496
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tortionnaire

Nearest frequency peer: tortionnaire (-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 « tournants »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tournants » 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).

tournants vs tournent
78% similar
tournants vs tournons
78% similar
tournants vs tournant
89% similar

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

Key facts for tournants
PropertyValue
Headwordtournants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tuʁ.nɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#46,496
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tournants »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tournantsse 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 « tortionnaire » (#46,495), « tourte » (#46,497), « tords » (#46,494). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tournants » est au #46,496. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around tournants (IPA \tuʁ.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,496 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de tournant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for tournants, with forms such as "oturnants", "torunants", and "tounrants". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tournent", "tournons", "tournant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct French form is tournants, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de tournant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oturnants
  • torunants
  • tounrants
  • tourannts
  • tournannts
  • tournanst
  • tournantss
  • tournantts
  • tournatns
  • tournnants
  • tournnats
  • tourrnants
  • ttournants
  • tuornants

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tournants - 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.

oturnants2torunants2tounrants2tourannts2tournannts1tournanst2tournantss1tournantts1
Edit distance from "tournants"

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 "tournants"?
"tournants" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ.nɑ̃\.
What does "tournants" mean?
As an adjective, "tournants" means: Masculin pluriel de tournant.
What words are commonly confused with "tournants"?
"tournants" is commonly confused with "tournent", "tournons", "tournant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tournants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tournants" is \tuʁ.nɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tournants" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

télésiège#46,507terminons#46,484tabourets#46,476vertement#46,516

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

tisserands14 variantssurhumaine14 variantsacharnent14 variantsangulaires14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list