Tourville
The verdict
“Tourville” is uncommon French (frequency #56,320 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,320
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourville · Tourville · French
Tourville · rank #56,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,320
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH totems
Nearest frequency peer: totems (-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 « Tourville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tomahawk
tomahawk
43,684 corpus weight
- totems
totems
43,682 corpus weight
- Tourville
Tourville
43,681 corpus weight
- transfo
transfo
43,680 corpus weight
- transité
transité
43,679 corpus weight
- transpercer
transpercer
43,678 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tourville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tourville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tourville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tourville is uncommon French at frequency #56,320 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tourville in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Tourville, spelled T-O-U-R-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tourville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Honorin Tourville, natif de Surrain.
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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