tour de contrôle

\tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\

/\tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\/ noun

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.

Key facts for tour de contrôle
PropertyValue
Headwordtour de contrôle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tour de contrôle” sits in French frequency

tour de contrôle falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Tour 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tour de contrôle"?
"tour de contrôle" is spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\.
What does "tour de contrôle" mean?
As a noun, "tour de contrôle" means: Tour du sommet de laquelle on peut surveiller visuellement la circulation sur un aéroport à travers des baies vitrées.
How do you pronounce "tour de contrôle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tour de contrôle" is \tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tour de contrôle" come from?
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Using “tour de contrôle”

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.
  • Say it as \tuʁ də kɔ̃.tʁol\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list