Which to use
“tournage” and “tournages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,647
- “tournage” frequency rank
- #26,902
- “tournages” frequency rank
- 30549
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tournage | tournages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de façonner des pièces mécaniques ou d’un autre matériau à l’aide d’un tour mécanique. | Pluriel de tournage. |
Same sound, different letters: tournage vs tournages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. tournage runs 8 letters (CVVCCVCV) against tournages's 9 (CVVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - tournage / tournages
This is the hard kind. tournage and tournages are pronounced identically (\tuʁ.naʒ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “tournage” sits inside “tournages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30549, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tournage is recorded at frequency rank #3,647, classified as anoun, pronounced \tuʁ.naʒ\. tournages is at rank #26,902, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tuʁ.naʒ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 30549, this pair ranks #309,553 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of tournage vs tournages
Shared letters: aegnortu. Private to "tournage": -. Private to "tournages": s.
"tournage" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV · "tournages" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tournage" and "tournages" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "tournage" vs "tournages" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"tournage" and "tournages" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "tournage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tournages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #309,553 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tournage" and "tournages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tournages vs tournais". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #309,553 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.