le tour est joué

/\lə tuʁ ɛ ʒwe\/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

le tour est joué is aFrenchphrase. It means: Le piège est tendu ; la ruse est prête. Pronounced \lə tuʁ ɛ ʒwe\.

Key facts for le tour est joué
PropertyValue
Headwordle tour est joué
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\lə tuʁ ɛ ʒwe\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

le tour est joué is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for le tour est joué is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə tuʁ ɛ ʒwe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for le tour est joué in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is le tour est joué, spelled L-E- -T-O-U-R- -E-S-T- -J-O-U-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le piège est tendu ; la ruse est prête.
  2. 2
    Le problème est réglé ; ce qu’il faut faire est terminé. Par exemple, pour marquer la fin d’une liste d’instructions.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "le tour est joué"?
"le tour est joué" is spelled L-E- -T-O-U-R- -E-S-T- -J-O-U-É. The IPA pronunciation is \lə tuʁ ɛ ʒwe\.
What does "le tour est joué" mean?
As a phrase, "le tour est joué" means: Le piège est tendu ; la ruse est prête.
How do you pronounce "le tour est joué"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "le tour est joué" is \lə tuʁ ɛ ʒwe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "le tour est joué" come from?
"le tour est joué" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.