tournagesvstournésWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: tournages is a noun, tournés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tournages” is a noun and “tournés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#26,902
“tournages” frequency rank
#14,572
“tournés” frequency rank
41474
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tournages tournés
Definition Pluriel de tournage. Masculin pluriel de tourné.

Where the eye mixes tournages and tournés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

9 ch
tournages
7 ch
tournés

Visual trap between tournages and tournés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: tournages is \tuʁ.naʒ\ while tournés is \tuʁ.ne\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41474, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tournages is recorded at frequency rank #26,902, classified as anoun, pronounced \tuʁ.naʒ\. tournés is at rank #14,572, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tuʁ.ne\.

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 41474, this pair ranks #232,823 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tournages vs tournés

Shared letters: norstu. Private to "tournages": aeg. Private to "tournés": é.

"tournages" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC  ·  "tournés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tournagesoturnages · torunages · tounrages · touranges · tournaegs · tournagess · tournagges · tournagse

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "tournages" and "tournés" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tournages" is a noun and "tournés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "tournages" vs "tournés" - which ranks higher?
"tournés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,572 in our French list, against #26,902 for "tournages". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "tournages" and "tournés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tournages" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tournés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #232,823 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tournages" and "tournés" 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 #232,823 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list