turquoise
\tyʁ.kwaz\
The verdict
“turquoise” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,503. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,503
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre de couleur bleu clair à bleu-vert qui provient du phosphate hydraté d’aluminium ou de cuivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-turquoise · turquoise · French
turquoise · rank #16,503 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,503
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tumeurs
Nearest frequency peer: tumeurs (-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 « turquoise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trolls
trolls
83,501 corpus weight
- trompée
trompée
83,500 corpus weight
- tumeurs
tumeurs
83,499 corpus weight
- turquoise
turquoise
83,498 corpus weight
- ultérieure
ultérieure
83,497 corpus weight
- una
una
83,496 corpus weight
What this shows « turquoise » 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 | turquoise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tyʁ.kwaz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « turquoise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around turquoise (IPA \tyʁ.kwaz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,503 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pierre de couleur bleu clair à bleu-vert qui provient du phosphate hydraté d’aluminium ou de cuivre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for turquoise, with forms such as "truquoise", "tturquoise", and "tuqruoise". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Turquie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is turquoise, spelled T-U-R-Q-U-O-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre de couleur bleu clair à bleu-vert qui provient du phosphate hydraté d’aluminium ou de cuivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turquoise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Turkomanes riches portent aux bras et aux pieds des bracelets pour la plupart en argent et ornés de turquoises, des ceintures et des colliers enrichis de pierreries et d’énormes boucles d’oreilles, le tout en argent.
Minet-Chéri, ne dis pas à ton frère que j’ai eu trois crises cette nuit. D’abord, je te le défends. Et si tu ne le lui dis pas, je te donnerai le bracelet avec les trois turquoises…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- truquoise
- tturquoise
- tuqruoise
- turqouise
- turqquoise
- turquiose
- turquoies
- turquoisse
- turquosie
- turrquoise
- turuqoise
- utrquoise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of turquoise - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).