tour de garde
\tuʁ də ɡaʁd\
The verdict
“tour de garde” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Période de surveillance militaire à tour de rôle.
| 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) |
Where “tour de garde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tour de garde is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ də ɡaʁd\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “tour de garde”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-R- -D-E- -G-A-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tuʁ də ɡaʁd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.