Which to use
“tournais” and “tournois” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,402
- “tournais” frequency rank
- #7,505
- “tournois” frequency rank
- 56907
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tournais | tournois |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif au Tourne, commune française située dans le département de la Gironde. | Relatif à des pièces de monnaie qui se frappaient à Tours et qui étaient plus faibles d’un cinquième que celles de Paris, ou frappées sur le modèle de celles de Tours après le XIII^(ème) siècle. |
Where the eye mixes tournais and tournois
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. tournais and tournois follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses tournais with tournois
A purely visual mix-up. tournais (\tuʁ.nɛ\) and tournois (\tuʁ.nwa\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - a in “tournais” becomes o in “tournois”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56907, 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\. tournois is at rank #7,505, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tuʁ.nwa\.
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 56907, this pair ranks #118,210 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of tournais vs tournois
Shared letters: inorstu. Private to "tournais": a. Private to "tournois": -.
"tournais" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "tournois" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "tournais" for "tournois" ever safe?
Frequency check: "tournais" vs "tournois" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "tournais" and "tournois" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "tournais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tournois" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #118,210 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tournais" and "tournois" 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 #118,210 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.