turco
\tyʁ.kɔ\
The verdict
“turco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,503. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,503
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom familier des tirailleurs indigènes et en particulier des tirailleurs algériens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turco · turco · French
turco · rank #46,503 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,503
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triumph
Nearest frequency peer: triumph (-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 « turco »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transatlant…
transatlantiques
53,501 corpus weight
- trique
trique
53,500 corpus weight
- triumph
triumph
53,499 corpus weight
- turco
turco
53,498 corpus weight
- tusk
tusk
53,497 corpus weight
- Tziganes
Tziganes
53,496 corpus weight
What this shows « turco » 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 | turco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.kɔ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « turco »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around turco (IPA \tyʁ.kɔ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,503 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom familier des tirailleurs indigènes et en particulier des tirailleurs algériens.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for turco, with forms such as "truco", "tturco", and "tucro". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "tuto", "turn", "turf", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is turco, spelled T-U-R-C-O.
Definition
- 1Nom familier des tirailleurs indigènes et en particulier des tirailleurs algériens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là étaient les débris vivants des meurtrières rencontres des premiers jours: dragons, zouaves, chasseurs de Vincennes, turcos, soldats de la ligne, hussards, lanciers, tous hâves, silencieux, mornes, traînant ce qui leur restait de souffle.
Il s’appelait Kadour, venait de la tribu du Djendel, et faisait partie de cette poignée de turcos qui s’étaient jetés dans Paris à la suite de l’armée de Vinoy.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- truco
- tturco
- tucro
- turcco
- turoc
- turrco
- utrco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of turco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).