tourner en rond
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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tourner en rond is aFrenchverb. It means: Marcher sans cesse en faisant le tour de quelque chose, sous l’effet de l’attente, du stress. Pronounced \tuʁ.ne ɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourner en rond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tuʁ.ne ɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for tourner en rond is 15 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ.ne ɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tourner en rond in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 en rond, spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -E-N- -R-O-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marcher sans cesse en faisant le tour de quelque chose, sous l’effet de l’attente, du stress.
- 2Perdre son temps ; ne pas avancer ; toujours faire la même chose et ne pas savoir quoi faire pour en sortir ; ne pas voir d’issue à une situation.
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