tournéevsturnêTell them apart

Which to use

“tournée” and “turnê” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#38,519
“tournée” frequency rank
#5,799
“turnê” frequency rank
44318
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tournée turnê
Definition ver turnê passagem de cunho comercial e artístico por um circuito de localidades já estipuladas as quais são pontuadas por apresentação com data certa

Letter map: tournée vs turnê

Shared letters muted; letters that set tournée and turnê apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. tournée runs 7 letters (CVVCCVV) against turnê's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
tournée
5 ch
turnê

Corpus notes: tournée and turnê

tournée and turnê are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44318, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tournée is recorded at frequency rank #38,519, classified as anoun, pronounced /tuɾ.ˈne/. turnê is at rank #5,799, tagged as anoun.

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 44318, this pair ranks #21,181 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tournée vs turnê

Shared letters: nrtu. Private to "tournée": eoé. Private to "turnê": ê.

"tournée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "turnê" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tournée" and "turnê" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "tournée" vs "turnê" - which ranks higher?
"turnê" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,799 in our Portuguese list, against #38,519 for "tournée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "tournée" and "turnê". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tournée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "turnê" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,181 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tournée" and "turnê" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tuna vs turnê". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #21,181 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list