tournésvsTurnerWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: tournés is a adjective, Turner is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#14,572
“tournés” frequency rank
#11,683
“Turner” frequency rank
26255
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tournés Turner
Definition Masculin pluriel de tourné. Nom de famille.

Letter map: tournés vs Turner

Shared letters muted; letters that set tournés and Turner apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. tournés runs 7 letters (CVVCCVC) against Turner's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
tournés
6 ch
Turner

Part-of-speech tell for tournés / Turner

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tournés is anadjective and Turneraname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26255, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tournés is recorded at frequency rank #14,572, classified as anadj, pronounced \tuʁ.ne\. Turner is at rank #11,683, 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 26255, this pair ranks #336,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of tournés vs Turner

Shared letters: nrtu. Private to "tournés": osé. Private to "Turner": e.

"tournés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC  ·  "Turner" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Turner ← truner · tturner · tunrer · turenr · turnerr · turnner · turnre · turrner

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tournés" and "Turner" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tournés" is an adjective and "Turner" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "tournés" or "Turner" show up more?
"Turner" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,683 in our French list, against #14,572 for "tournés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "tournés" and "Turner".

  • Full dictionary entry for "tournés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Turner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #336,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tournés" and "Turner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tournais vs tournés". 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 #336,173 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