Tour de France
\tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“Tour de France” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Compétition cycliste par étapes à travers toute la France, se déroulant au mois de juillet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tour de France |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tour de France” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Tour de France is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s\. 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: "Compétition cycliste par étapes à travers toute la France, se déroulant au mois de juillet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tour de France 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 Tour de France, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -F-R-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Compétition cycliste par étapes à travers toute la France, se déroulant au mois de juillet.
Synonyms
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Using “Tour de France”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-R- -D-E- -F-R-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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