tournoyant
\tuʁ.nwa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“tournoyant” is uncommon French (frequency #77,095 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,095
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tournoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournoyant · tournoyant · French
tournoyant · rank #77,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,095
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tondus
Nearest frequency peer: tondus (-2 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 « tournoyant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Titicaca
Titicaca
22,909 corpus weight
- tondus
tondus
22,908 corpus weight
- tournoyant
tournoyant
22,906 corpus weight
- traiterai
traiterai
22,904 corpus weight
- Transavia
Transavia
22,903 corpus weight
- transcendent
transcendent
22,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tournoyant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tournoyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tuʁ.nwa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tournoyant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tournoyant is uncommon French at frequency #77,095 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tuʁ.nwa.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui tournoie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tournoyant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tournoyant, spelled T-O-U-R-N-O-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui tournoie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tournoyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…, elle se trouva en présence d’une vieille sibylle qui grommelait un chant saxon, comme pour battre la mesure de la danse tournoyante que traçait son fuseau.
À les voir pressés, tournoyants et fondus dans une étreinte où les chairs, malgré leurs vêtements, se collaient aux chairs, on s’imaginait la seule divinité de l’amour en deux personnes, l’individu complet dont parlent les récits fabuleux des brahmanes, deux sexes distincts en un unique monstre.
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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