Tour de France
[tuʁ də ˈfʁɑ̃ːs]
The verdict
“Tour de France” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jährlich stattfindendes Straßenrennen, das in mehreren Etappen quer durch Frankreich (und vereinzelt das nahe Ausland) führt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tour de France |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [tuʁ də ˈfʁɑ̃ːs] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tour de France” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tour de France is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tuʁ də ˈfʁɑ̃ːs]. 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: "jährlich stattfindendes Straßenrennen, das in mehreren Etappen quer durch Frankreich (und vereinzelt das nahe Ausland) führt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tour de France in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 Tour de France, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -F-R-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jährlich stattfindendes Straßenrennen, das in mehreren Etappen quer durch Frankreich (und vereinzelt das nahe Ausland) führt
This word in other languages
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Using “Tour de France”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-O-U-R- -D-E- -F-R-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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