tourner autour du pot
\tuʁ.ne o.tuʁ dy po\
The verdict
“tourner autour du pot” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - User de détours inutiles, au lieu d’aller au fait, à la conclusion d’une affaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourner autour du pot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tuʁ.ne o.tuʁ dy po\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tourner autour du pot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tourner autour du pot is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ.ne o.tuʁ dy po\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "User de détours inutiles, au lieu d’aller au fait, à la conclusion d’une affaire.".
tourner autour du pot has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 tourner autour du pot, spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -A-U-T-O-U-R- -D-U- -P-O-T.
Definition
- 1User de détours inutiles, au lieu d’aller au fait, à la conclusion d’une affaire.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “tourner autour du pot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -A-U-T-O-U-R- -D-U- -P-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tuʁ.ne o.tuʁ dy po\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.