tourte
\tuʁt\
The verdict
“tourte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,497
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâtisserie généralement salée contenant des viandes, des quenelles, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourte · tourte · French
tourte · rank #46,497 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,497
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tournants
Nearest frequency peer: tournants (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tourte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tords
tords
53,507 corpus weight
- tortionnaire
tortionnaire
53,506 corpus weight
- tournants
tournants
53,505 corpus weight
- tourte
tourte
53,504 corpus weight
- toutous
toutous
53,503 corpus weight
- toxic
toxic
53,502 corpus weight
What this shows « tourte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tourte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tourte (IPA \tuʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,497 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tourte, with forms such as "oturte", "touret", and "tourrte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tout", "toute", "touts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 tourte, spelled T-O-U-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Pâtisserie généralement salée contenant des viandes, des quenelles, etc.
- 2Masse issue du broyage en poudre du minerai d'argent.
- 3Plaque d'argile sur laquelle est posé le creuset des verriers et des fondeurs de métaux.
- 4Idiot, en particulier s’agissant d’une femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tourte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque fois que madame Bergeret faisait à l’improviste une invitation à dîner, elle commandait une tourte chez le pâtissier Magloire, et de préférence une tourte maigre, comme plus délicate. M. Bergeret se représenta donc, sans convoitise et par un pur effet de son intelligence, une tourte aux œufs ou au poisson, fumant dans un plat à filets bleus, sur la…
Il invitait le voyageur las des routes solitaires à entrer et à se réconforter avec du café fumant et des gâteaux chauds, du quatre-quart et de délicieuses tourtes faites avec les produits d'un sol gras; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturte
- touret
- tourrte
- tourtte
- toutre
- ttourte
- tuorte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tourte - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).