tourneravstournésConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#25,154
“tournera” frequency rank
#14,572
“tournés” frequency rank
39726
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tournera tournés
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de tourner. Masculin pluriel de tourné.

Where the eye mixes tournera and tournés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

8 ch
tournera
7 ch
tournés

Why the eye confuses tournera with tournés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: tournera is \tuʁ.nə.ʁa\ while tournés is \tuʁ.ne\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39726, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tournera is recorded at frequency rank #25,154, classified as averb, pronounced \tuʁ.nə.ʁa\. 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 39726, this pair ranks #245,843 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tournera vs tournés

Shared letters: nortu. Private to "tournera": ae. Private to "tournés": .

"tournera" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV  ·  "tournés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tourneraoturnera · torunera · tounrera · tourenra · tournear · tournerra · tournnera · tournrea

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tournera" and "tournés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tournera" is a verb and "tournés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "tournera" 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 #25,154 for "tournera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "tournera" 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 #245,843 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tournera" and "tournés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tournera vs tournerait". 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 #245,843 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