à tour de rôle

/[a tuʁ də ʁol]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à tour de rôle is aGermanphrase. It means: der Reihe nach, turnusgemäß Pronounced [a tuʁ də ʁol].

Key facts for à tour de rôle
PropertyValue
Headwordà tour de rôle
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[a tuʁ də ʁol]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à tour de rôle is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for à tour de rôle is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a tuʁ də ʁol]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "der Reihe nach, turnusgemäß".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à tour de rôle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is à tour de rôle, spelled À- -T-O-U-R- -D-E- -R-Ô-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Reihe nach, turnusgemäß

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à tour de rôle"?
"à tour de rôle" is spelled À- -T-O-U-R- -D-E- -R-Ô-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [a tuʁ də ʁol].
What does "à tour de rôle" mean?
As a phrase, "à tour de rôle" means: der Reihe nach, turnusgemäß
How do you pronounce "à tour de rôle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à tour de rôle" is [a tuʁ də ʁol]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à tour de rôle" come from?
"à tour de rôle" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.