tour de guet
\tuʁ də ɡɛ\
The verdict
“tour de guet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construction haute permettant de surveiller, de faire le guet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tour-de-guet · tour de guet · French
tour de guet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 guet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ də ɡɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tour de guet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tour de guet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ də ɡɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Construction haute permettant de surveiller, de faire le guet.".
tour de guet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tour de guet, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -G-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Construction haute permettant de surveiller, de faire le guet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tour de guet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces horizons balayés, où s’ébattaient d’immenses troupeaux de nuages, étaient rendus plus semblables encore à ceux du large par l’apparition, de place en place, de hautes tours de guet normandes, semées irrégulièrement sur les steppes rases, et qui surveillaient la plaine nue comme des phares.
Ce cocon de verdure qui entourait l’airial de Marie a aussi disparu sur la route de Joué, où la tour de guet culmine, esseulée, au milieu d’un paysage lunaire.
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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.