tour de contrôle
\tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\
The verdict
“tour de contrôle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tour du sommet de laquelle on peut surveiller visuellement la circulation sur un aéroport à travers des baies vitrées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tour de contrôle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tour de contrôle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tour de contrôle is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tour du sommet de laquelle on peut surveiller visuellement la circulation sur un aéroport à travers des baies vitrées.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tour de contrôle in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 tour de contrôle, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tour du sommet de laquelle on peut surveiller visuellement la circulation sur un aéroport à travers des baies vitrées.
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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.