touer
\twe\
The verdict
“touer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire avancer un navire en le tirant, haler une péniche, remorquer un navire, paumoyer une barque, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touer · touer · French
touer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | touer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \twe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \twe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for touer in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 touer, spelled T-O-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire avancer un navire en le tirant, haler une péniche, remorquer un navire, paumoyer une barque, etc.
- 2Se remorquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussitôt un officier est envoyé auprès du gouverneur (...). Sa mission est de remercier en mon nom, M. le gouverneur de son attention délicate de nous envoyer ses chaloupes pour nous touer dans le port.
En route, il arriva une péripétie. Nous touions, du verbe touer (rien à voir avec les touillettes), quand, sorti d'on ne sait où, un citoyen vint se mettre en travers du chemin.
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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.