touron
\tu.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“touron” is uncommon French (frequency #96,455 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,455
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confiserie de Noël aux amandes d’origine ibérique, équivalent au nougat.→ voir turrón
Corpus desk
Index FR-touron · touron · French
touron · rank #96,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,455
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toussé
Nearest frequency peer: toussé (+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 « touron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- topinambours
topinambours
3,549 corpus weight
- touc
touc
3,548 corpus weight
- touron
touron
3,546 corpus weight
- toussé
toussé
3,545 corpus weight
- transpondeu…
transpondeurs
3,544 corpus weight
- transsexuel…
transsexuelles
3,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tu.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touron is uncommon French at frequency #96,455 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tu.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Confiserie de Noël aux amandes d’origine ibérique, équivalent au nougat.→ voir turrón".
Zero misspellings are on record for touron in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is touron, spelled T-O-U-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Confiserie de Noël aux amandes d’origine ibérique, équivalent au nougat.→ voir turrón
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how touron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il aurait aimé se lever, détacher son revolver et son ceinturon, franchir les quatre cents mètres qui le séparaient des lignes ennemies, s’asseoir avec eux, partager peut-être un peu de touron et leur demander qu’on lui apprenne ces villancicos qu’il n’avait jamais pu retenir.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).