Which to use
“tournais” and “tournées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,402
- “tournais” frequency rank
- #10,801
- “tournées” frequency rank
- 60203
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tournais | tournées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif au Tourne, commune française située dans le département de la Gironde. | Féminin pluriel de tourné. |
Where the eye mixes tournais and tournées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. tournais and tournées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: tournais vs tournées
A purely visual mix-up. tournais (\tuʁ.nɛ\) and tournées (\tuʁ.ne\) 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 60203, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tournais is recorded at frequency rank #49,402, classified as anadj, pronounced \tuʁ.nɛ\. tournées is at rank #10,801, 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 60203, this pair ranks #98,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of tournais vs tournées
Shared letters: norstu. Private to "tournais": ai. Private to "tournées": eé.
"tournais" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "tournées" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- tournais ← oturnais · torunais · tounrais · touranis · tournaiss · tournasi · tournias · tournnais
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tournais" and "tournées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "tournais" or "tournées" show up more?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "tournais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tournées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #98,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tournais" and "tournées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "touchais 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 #98,894 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.