tour guide
"tour-guide" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tour guide” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tour-guide · tour guide · English
tour guide · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tour guide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tour guide” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tour guide is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tour guide, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is tour guide, spelled T-O-U-R- -G-U-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1One who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours.
- 2Synonym of travel guide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tour guide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before he came to Stanford, Thrun had worked on robotic tour guides for museums in Germany, an interactive humanoid robot that worked in a nursing home near Pittsburgh, and a system of robots that could search out mines.
Government licensed tour guides would take the groups through the site.
This word in other languages
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.