tournelles
\tuʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“tournelles” is uncommon French (frequency #91,240 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,240
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tournelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournelles · tournelles · French
tournelles · rank #91,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,240
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tourtour
Nearest frequency peer: Tourtour (+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 « tournelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tontine
tontine
8,766 corpus weight
- touchèrent
touchèrent
8,763 corpus weight
- tournelles
tournelles
8,761 corpus weight
- Tourtour
Tourtour
8,760 corpus weight
- transfigurée
transfigurée
8,759 corpus weight
- transmettai…
transmettaient
8,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tournelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tournelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tournelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tournelles is uncommon French at frequency #91,240 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tournelle.".
tournelles has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tournelles, spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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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