tournent
\tuʁn\
The verdict
“tournent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,912
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournent · tournent · French
tournent · rank #7,912 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,912
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH ténèbres
Nearest frequency peer: ténèbres (+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 « tournent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- territorial…
territoriales
92,093 corpus weight
- tigre
tigre
92,092 corpus weight
- toilette
toilette
92,091 corpus weight
- tournent
tournent
92,089 corpus weight
- ténèbres
ténèbres
92,088 corpus weight
- variation
variation
92,087 corpus weight
What this shows « tournent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tournent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tuʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tournent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tournent (IPA \tuʁn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,912 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tournent, with forms such as "oturnent", "torunent", and "tounrent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tourner", "tournés", "tournez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 tournent, spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tourner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de tourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tournent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Moyen Age, circulaires sont l’oculus (fenêtre ronde) des églises romanes et la rosace des églises gothiques. Nous en voyons à Echillais, Esnandes, Médis, Migron, Saint-Saturnin-de-Séchaus, Talmont et à Breuillet où, prétend la tradition, « les rayons tournent », ce qui n’a rien d’étonnant, écrit Mᵐᵉ Lamontellerie, dans un pays où le soleil « dansait le…
Ceux-ci, en effet, écœurés par la baisse de leurs cens, se tournent vers la propriété de la terre, dont la valeur est garantie contre l’inflation parce que indexée, surindexée même par rapport au mouvement des prix.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturnent
- torunent
- tounrent
- tourennt
- tournennt
- tournentt
- tournetn
- tournnent
- tournnet
- tourrnent
- ttournent
- tuornent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tournent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tournent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).