tourteau
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#72,801
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tourteau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Masse formée du marc de certaines graines, de certaines plantes oléagineuses. Pronounced \tuʁ.to\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tourteau is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ.to\. Corpus data places it at rank #72,801 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tourteau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tourteau, spelled T-O-U-R-T-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Masse formée du marc de certaines graines, de certaines plantes oléagineuses.
- 2Coproduit, riche en protéines, issu de l’industrie de l’huilerie, après extraction de l’huile des graines oléagineuses ou oléo-protéagineuses.
- 3Sous entendu tourteau fromagé.
- 4Meuble représentant une pièce de monnaie dans les armoiries. Il est représenté par un simple disque coloré d’un émail ou d’une fourrure, ce qui le distingue du besant qui est, lui, de métal. Sa couleur doit toujours être blasonnée. À rapprocher de besant, besant-tourteau, buse, gulpe, guse, heurte, œil de faucon, ogoesse, plate, pomme, somme, tourteau-besant et volet.
- 5Croisillon métallique destiné à recevoir l’extrémité d'une embrasure sur les anciennes roue en bois.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #72,801 in French
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