tournelle
\tuʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“tournelle” is uncommon French (frequency #79,811 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,811
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite tour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournelle · tournelle · French
tournelle · rank #79,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,811
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toward
Nearest frequency peer: toward (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tournelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tosh
tosh
20,193 corpus weight
- totaliser
totaliser
20,192 corpus weight
- tournelle
tournelle
20,190 corpus weight
- toward
toward
20,189 corpus weight
- trachéotomie
trachéotomie
20,188 corpus weight
- traditional…
traditionalisme
20,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tournelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tournelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tournelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tournelle is uncommon French at frequency #79,811 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite tour.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tournelle, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tournelle, spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petite tour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tournelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rue des tournelles, le pont de la tournelle.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).