tourterelle
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#58,990
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tourterelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire ou normalisé de plusieurs genres d'oiseaux de la famille des columbidés de taille inférieure au pigeon, à queue généralement plus longue et effilée. Pronounced \tuʁ.tə.ʁɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourterelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.tə.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tourterelle is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ.tə.ʁɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,990 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tourterelle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tourterelle, spelled T-O-U-R-T-E-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire ou normalisé de plusieurs genres d'oiseaux de la famille des columbidés de taille inférieure au pigeon, à queue généralement plus longue et effilée.
- 2Couleur grise légèrement rosée. #BBACAC
- 3Crécelle
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se blasonne comme le pigeon dont elle ne diffère pas vraiment (il y a donc risque de confusion) si ce n’est par le fait qu’elle est généralement représentée de sable (même si d’autres couleurs sont possibles). À rapprocher de colombe et pigeon.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #58,990 in French
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