demi-tour
\də.mi.tuʁ\
The verdict
“demi-tour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moitié d’un tour sur soi-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demi-tour · demi-tour · French
demi-tour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | demi-tour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.mi.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « demi-tour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
demi-tour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \də.mi.tuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for demi-tour, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is demi-tour, spelled D-E-M-I---T-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Moitié d’un tour sur soi-même.
- 2Virage ou angle à 180 degrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how demi-tour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Demi-tour à droite… droite !…
Nous sommes pareils, mais nos choix vont en sens inverse, un peu comme dans les anciens manuels militaires où l’on nous apprenait que faire sur place demi-tour à gauche est exactement la même chose que faire demi-tour à droite, seulement c’est le contraire.
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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.