tour de guet
\tuʁ də ɡɛ\
The verdict
“tour de guet” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Construction haute permettant de surveiller, de faire le guet.
| 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) |
Where “tour de guet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tour de guet is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ də ɡɛ\. 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: "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.
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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.
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Using “tour de guet”
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-U-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tuʁ də ɡɛ\ (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.