turn
\tʊʁn\
The verdict
“turn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,594
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de turnen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turn · turn · French
turn · rank #20,594 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,594
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH turbines
Nearest frequency peer: turbines (-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 « turn »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transportée
transportée
79,410 corpus weight
- tropicales
tropicales
79,409 corpus weight
- turbines
turbines
79,408 corpus weight
- turn
turn
79,407 corpus weight
- ultimatum
ultimatum
79,406 corpus weight
- underground
underground
79,405 corpus weight
What this shows « turn » 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 | turn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʊʁn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « turn »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around turn (IPA \tʊʁn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,594 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for turn, with forms such as "trun", "tturn", and "tunr". 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 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is turn, spelled T-U-R-N.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de turnen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de turnen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- trun
- tturn
- tunr
- turnn
- turrn
- utrn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of turn - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).