tourner en rond

/\tuʁ.ne ɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\/ verb

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

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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\.

Key facts for tourner en rond
PropertyValue
Headwordtourner en rond
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tuʁ.ne ɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Marcher sans cesse en faisant le tour de quelque chose, sous l’effet de l’attente, du stress.
  2. 2
    Perdre 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tourner en rond"?
"tourner en rond" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -E-N- -R-O-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ.ne ɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\.
What does "tourner en rond" mean?
As a verb, "tourner en rond" means: Marcher sans cesse en faisant le tour de quelque chose, sous l’effet de l’attente, du stress.
How do you pronounce "tourner en rond"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tourner en rond" is \tuʁ.ne ɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tourner en rond" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.