Tours de France
[tuʁ də ˈfʁɑ̃ːs]
The verdict
“Tours de France” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Tour de France
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tours de France |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tuʁ də ˈfʁɑ̃ːs] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tours de France” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tours de France is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, 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. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Tours 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 Tours de France, spelled T-O-U-R-S- -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
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Tour de France
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Tour de France
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Tour de France
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Tour de France
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is T-O-U-R-S- -D-E- -F-R-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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