# tourment vs tournant

> French confusable word pair

## The two words

### tourment
*noun · IPA \tuʁ.mɑ̃\ · frequency rank #39,073*
Supplice, torture.

### tournant
*adjective · IPA \tuʁ.nɑ̃\ · frequency rank #4,899*
Qui tourne.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/fr/vs/tourment-vs-tournant