tourner court

/\tuʁ.ne kuʁ\/ verb

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tourner court is aFrenchverb. It means: Tourner dans un petit espace, ne pas prendre largement son tournant, son virage. Pronounced \tuʁ.ne kuʁ\.

Key facts for tourner court
PropertyValue
Headwordtourner court
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tuʁ.ne kuʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tourner court is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tourner court is 13 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ.ne kuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for tourner court in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tourner court, spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -C-O-U-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tourner dans un petit espace, ne pas prendre largement son tournant, son virage.
  2. 2
    Abréger.
  3. 3
    Finir plus tôt que prévu.
  4. 4
    Arriver brusquement, abruptement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tourner court"?
"tourner court" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -C-O-U-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ.ne kuʁ\.
What does "tourner court" mean?
As a verb, "tourner court" means: Tourner dans un petit espace, ne pas prendre largement son tournant, son virage.
How do you pronounce "tourner court"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tourner court" is \tuʁ.ne kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tourner court" come from?
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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.