turf
\tyʁf\
The verdict
“turf” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,415. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,415
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où se font les courses de chevaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turf · turf · French
turf · rank #49,415 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,415
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tun
Nearest frequency peer: tun (-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 « turf »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- triviale
triviale
50,589 corpus weight
- trônes
trônes
50,588 corpus weight
- tun
tun
50,587 corpus weight
- turf
turf
50,586 corpus weight
- turismo
turismo
50,585 corpus weight
- tâcherai
tâcherai
50,583 corpus weight
What this shows « turf » 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 | turf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « turf »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around turf (IPA \tyʁf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,415 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for turf, with forms such as "truf", "tturf", and "tufr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tyr", "tus", "tuto", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is turf, spelled T-U-R-F.
Definition
- 1Lieu où se font les courses de chevaux.
- 2Hippisme.
- 3Ensemble des activités liées aux courses de chevaux et aux paris sur celles-ci.
- 4Activité d’une prostituée, racolage.
- 5. Prostituée.
- 6Tout travail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais si les courses ne donnent point au cheval les caractères de bonté que l’on en attend, pourquoi le gouvernement français les subventionne-t-il ? pourquoi ne laisserait-on pas les amateurs du turf se soutenir par eux-mêmes […] ?
Exactement comme au turf, toujours un imprévu qui fait battre le favori.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- truf
- tturf
- tufr
- turff
- turrf
- utrf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of turf - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "turf", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).