tournebroche
French, noun/tuʁ.nə.bʁɔʃ/
tournebroche is spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-B-R-O-C-H-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tournebroche is a French masculine noun meaning “roasting spit, turnspit, roasting jack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil servant à faire tourner la broche”.
What does tournebroche mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineroasting spit, turnspit, roasting jack
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appareil servant à faire tourner la broche.
noun: 1. Celui ou celle qui est préposé à tourner la broche. 2. Chien qu’on mettait dans une roue pour faire tourner la broche.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tournebroche
- tournebroches plural
- tourne-broche
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tournebroche?
- /tuʁ.nə.bʁɔʃ/
- \tuʁ.nə.bʁɔʃ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tournebroche in French?
tournebroche appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).