TournonvstournonsTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#38,576
“Tournon” frequency rank
#45,351
“tournons” frequency rank
83927
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Tournon tournons
Definition Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie. Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tourner.

Letter map: Tournon vs tournons

Shared letters muted; letters that set Tournon and tournons apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. Tournon runs 7 letters (CVVCCVC) against tournons's 8 (CVVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
Tournon
8 ch
tournons

Part-of-speech tell for Tournon / tournons

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Tournon is aname and tournonsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “Tournon” sits inside “tournons”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83927, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Tournon is recorded at frequency rank #38,576, classified as aname. tournons is at rank #45,351, tagged as averb, pronounced \tuʁ.nɔ̃\.

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 83927, this pair ranks #13,904 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Tournon vs tournons

Shared letters: nortu. Private to "Tournon": -. Private to "tournons": s.

"Tournon" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC  ·  "tournons" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Tournonoturnon · torunon · tounron · tournno · tournnon · tournonn · touronn · tourrnon
  • tournonsoturnons · torunons · tounrons · tournnons · tournnos · tournonns · tournonss · tournosn

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Tournon" and "tournons" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Tournon" is a name and "tournons" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Tournon" vs "tournons" - which ranks higher?
"Tournon" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,576 in our French list, against #45,351 for "tournons". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Tournon" and "tournons". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Tournon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tournons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,904 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Tournon" and "tournons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tournais 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 #13,904 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