tourner autour du pot
\tuʁ.ne o.tuʁ dy po\
The verdict
“tourner autour du pot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - User de détours inutiles, au lieu d’aller au fait, à la conclusion d’une affaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourner-autour-du-pot · tourner autour du pot · French
tourner autour du pot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « tourner autour du pot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tourner autour du pot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tuʁ.ne o.tuʁ dy po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tourner autour du pot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parlez franchement, ne tournez point tant autour du pot.
Le 7 septembre, la veille de la Nativité de la Vierge, maman sans même se donner le temps de tourner autour du pot, me dit que M. le Doyen m’attendrait dès 3 heures pour me confesser : « Comme ça tu passeras avant toutes ces dames ».
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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.