Tournus
\tuʁ.ny\
The verdict
“Tournus” is uncommon French (frequency #58,303 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,303
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tournus · Tournus · French
Tournus · rank #58,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,303
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tourangeau
Nearest frequency peer: Tourangeau (-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 « Tournus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- todos
todos
41,701 corpus weight
- toqué
toqué
41,700 corpus weight
- Tourangeau
Tourangeau
41,699 corpus weight
- Tournus
Tournus
41,698 corpus weight
- towards
towards
41,696 corpus weight
- township
township
41,695 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tournus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tournus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.ny\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tournus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tournus is uncommon French at frequency #58,303 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tuʁ.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tournus, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Tournus, spelled T-O-U-R-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tournus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces observations permettent de se demander si le Glazi du Petit Thalamus n'est pas Laizé, commune située entre Mâcon et Tournus, à onze kilomètres au nord de Mâcon, à peu de distance de la Saône, […].
Gabriële et Jeanine ont décidé de passer par Tournus, en Saône-et-Loire, ce qui n’est pas le chemin le plus court pour se rendre à Nérac, mais c’est une route que Gabriële connaît comme sa poche, elle l’a parcourue tant de fois en son temps avec Francis, mais aussi Marcel et Guillaume.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).