tournevis
French, noun/tuʁ.nə.vis/
tournevis is spelled T-O-U-R-N-E-V-I-S (9 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tournevis is a French masculine noun meaning “screwdriver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Outil de poing fait d’une sorte de lame de fer, d’acier, pourvue d’un manche et avec lequel on serre et l’on…”.
What does tournevis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescrewdriver
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Outil de poing fait d’une sorte de lame de fer, d’acier, pourvue d’un manche et avec lequel on serre et l’on desserre les vis. 2. Gendarme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce tournevis?
- /tuʁ.nə.vis/
- \tuʁ.nə.vis\
- [æ̃ tuʁ.nə.vis]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tournevis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tournevis in French?
tournevis appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).