tournéevsTournonWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: tournée is a noun, Tournon is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tournée” is a noun and “Tournon” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,395
“tournée” frequency rank
#38,576
“Tournon” frequency rank
40971
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tournée Tournon
Definition Voyage que font les fonctionnaires, les officiers, les prélats, les représentants de commerce, etc., dans les lieux de leur ressort. Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.

Letter map: tournée vs Tournon

Shared letters muted; letters that set tournée and Tournon apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. tournée (CVVCCVV) and Tournon (CVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
tournée
7 ch
Tournon

Role in the sentence - tournée and Tournon

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tournée is anoun and Tournonaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40971, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tournée is recorded at frequency rank #2,395, classified as anoun, pronounced \tuʁ.ne\. Tournon is at rank #38,576, tagged as aname.

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 40971, this pair ranks #236,564 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tournée vs Tournon

Shared letters: nortu. Private to "tournée": eé. Private to "Tournon": -.

"tournée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "Tournon" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Tournon ← oturnon · torunon · tounron · tournno · tournnon · tournonn · touronn · tourrnon

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tournée" and "Tournon" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tournée" is a noun and "Tournon" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "tournée" or "Tournon" show up more?
"tournée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,395 in our French list, against #38,576 for "Tournon". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "tournée" and "Tournon".

  • Full dictionary entry for "tournée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Tournon" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #236,564 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tournée" and "Tournon" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Tournon vs tournons". 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 #236,564 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