Which to use
“tournage” and “tournure” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,647
- “tournage” frequency rank
- #12,685
- “tournure” frequency rank
- 16332
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tournage | tournure |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de façonner des pièces mécaniques ou d’un autre matériau à l’aide d’un tour mécanique. | Manière de tourner. de présenter les choses. |
Where the eye mixes tournage and tournure
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. tournage and tournure follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: tournage vs tournure
A purely visual mix-up. tournage (\tuʁ.naʒ\) and tournure (\tuʁ.nyʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16332, 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\. tournure is at rank #12,685, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tuʁ.nyʁ\.
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 16332, this pair ranks #388,308 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of tournage vs tournure
Shared letters: enortu. Private to "tournage": ag. Private to "tournure": -.
"tournage" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV · "tournure" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tournage" and "tournure" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "tournage" or "tournure" show up more?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "tournage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tournure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #388,308 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tournage" and "tournure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tourneur vs tournure". 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 #388,308 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.