turbo
\tyʁ.bo\
The verdict
“turbo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,708
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Turbo, genre de gastéropodes prosobranches des mers chaudes dont la coquille présente une large ouverture circulaire et est utilisée dans l'industrie de la nacre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turbo · turbo · French
turbo · rank #13,708 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,708
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trek
Nearest frequency peer: trek (-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 « turbo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- toiture
toiture
86,296 corpus weight
- transparente
transparente
86,295 corpus weight
- trek
trek
86,294 corpus weight
- turbo
turbo
86,293 corpus weight
- utopie
utopie
86,292 corpus weight
- vicomte
vicomte
86,291 corpus weight
What this shows « turbo » 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 | turbo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.bo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « turbo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around turbo (IPA \tyʁ.bo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,708 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Turbo, genre de gastéropodes prosobranches des mers chaudes dont la coquille présente une large ouverture circulaire et est utilisée dans l'industrie de la nacre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for turbo, with forms such as "trubo", "tturbo", and "tubro". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "turc", "tuto", "turn", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is turbo, spelled T-U-R-B-O.
Definition
- 1Turbo, genre de gastéropodes prosobranches des mers chaudes dont la coquille présente une large ouverture circulaire et est utilisée dans l'industrie de la nacre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how turbo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En suivant la côte [d'Australie], je trouvai en grande quantité les patelles, les turbos, les haliotis.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- trubo
- tturbo
- tubro
- turbbo
- turob
- turrbo
- utrbo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of turbo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).