tournoyer
\tuʁ.nwa.je\
The verdict
“tournoyer” is uncommon French (frequency #54,962 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,962
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tourner en faisant plusieurs tours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournoyer · tournoyer · French
tournoyer · rank #54,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,962
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torticolis
Nearest frequency peer: torticolis (-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 « tournoyer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- TMZ
TMZ
45,043 corpus weight
- toniques
toniques
45,041 corpus weight
- torticolis
torticolis
45,040 corpus weight
- tournoyer
tournoyer
45,039 corpus weight
- traduisez
traduisez
45,037 corpus weight
- tranchantes
tranchantes
45,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tournoyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tournoyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tuʁ.nwa.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tournoyer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tournoyer is uncommon French at frequency #54,962 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tuʁ.nwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tournoyer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tournoyer, spelled T-O-U-R-N-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tourner en faisant plusieurs tours.
- 2Faire une suite de tours et de détours.
- 3Biaiser, chercher des détours, ne pas aller droit au but.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tournoyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vaquero ricana et fit tournoyer son lasso autour de sa tête.
Ne remarques-tu pas cette vapeur suffocante et sans issue qui déjà tournoie en spirales noires autour de cette chambre ?
This word in other languages
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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