tournèrent
\tuʁ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“tournèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #65,579 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,579
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournerent · tournèrent · French
tournèrent · rank #65,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,579
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torréfaction
Nearest frequency peer: torréfaction (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tournèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- torrides
torrides
34,424 corpus weight
- torréfaction
torréfaction
34,423 corpus weight
- tournèrent
tournèrent
34,422 corpus weight
- tractus
tractus
34,421 corpus weight
- traiterait
traiterait
34,420 corpus weight
- transférez
transférez
34,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tournèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tournèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tuʁ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tournèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tournèrent is uncommon French at frequency #65,579 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tuʁ.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tourner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tournèrent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tournèrent, spelled T-O-U-R-N-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tourner.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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