turbulence
\tyʁ.by.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“turbulence” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,499. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,499
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de celui qui est turbulent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turbulence · turbulence · French
turbulence · rank #33,499 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,499
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tumulte
Nearest frequency peer: tumulte (-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 « turbulence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trousseau
trousseau
66,505 corpus weight
- tsonga
tsonga
66,504 corpus weight
- tumulte
tumulte
66,503 corpus weight
- turbulence
turbulence
66,502 corpus weight
- Turing
Turing
66,501 corpus weight
- Tyr
Tyr
66,500 corpus weight
What this shows « turbulence » 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 | turbulence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.by.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « turbulence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around turbulence (IPA \tyʁ.by.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,499 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for turbulence, with forms such as "trubulence", "tturbulence", and "tubrulence". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "turbulent", "turbulences", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is turbulence, spelled T-U-R-B-U-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de celui qui est turbulent.
- 2État d’un fluide, liquide ou gaz, dans lequel la vitesse présente en tout point un caractère tourbillonnaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turbulence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; s'ils marchent, c'est posément et pour affaires; et ils ne conçoivent rien à notre turbulence et à nos promenades en long et en large; toujours assis, ils passent des journées entières rêvant, les jambes croisées, la pipe à la bouche, […].
En effet, si les armées des rois mérovingiens étaient d’ordinaire sans discipline, celle-là passait en turbulence farouche tout ce qu’on avait vu depuis l’époque des grandes invasions.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- trubulence
- tturbulence
- tubrulence
- turbbulence
- turbluence
- turbuelnce
- turbulecne
- turbulencce
- turbulenec
- turbulennce
- turbullence
- turbulnece
- turrbulence
- turublence
- utrbulence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of turbulence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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