tournemain
French, noun/tuʁ.nə.mɛ̃/
tournemain is spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-M-A-I-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tournemain is a French masculine noun meaning “turning of a hand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de tourner la main”.
What does tournemain mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineturning of a hand
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de tourner la main.
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 tournemain
- tournemains plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tournemain?
- /tuʁ.nə.mɛ̃/
- \tuʁ.nə.mɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tournemain in French?
tournemain appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).