tour de garde
\tuʁ də ɡaʁd\
The verdict
“tour de garde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période de surveillance militaire à tour de rôle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tour-de-garde · tour de garde · French
tour de garde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | tour de garde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ də ɡaʁd\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tour de garde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tour de garde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ də ɡaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tour de garde, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tour de garde, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -G-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Période de surveillance militaire à tour de rôle.
- 2Période de surveillance médicale à tour de rôle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tour de garde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart du temps ils dormaient à la belle étoile, autour d’un feu de bois, chacun assurant son tour de garde. Parfois, les loups hurlaient, et on pouvait les sentir rôder autour du campement.
Il fallait donc lui préparer la nuit comme on prépare un tour de garde. Les impedimenta devaient être tous sur la table de nuit et dans un ordre bien défini.
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.