tour de rein

/\tuʁ də ʁɛ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“tour de rein” 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

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lumbago.

Key facts for tour de rein
PropertyValue
Headwordtour de rein
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tuʁ də ʁɛ̃\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tour de rein” sits in French frequency

tour de rein falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tour de rein is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ də ʁɛ̃\. 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: "Lumbago.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tour de rein 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 rein, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -R-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lumbago.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tour de rein"?
"tour de rein" is spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -R-E-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \tuʁ də ʁɛ̃\.
What does "tour de rein" mean?
As a noun, "tour de rein" means: Lumbago.
How do you pronounce "tour de rein"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tour de rein" is \tuʁ də ʁɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tour de rein" come from?
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Using “tour de rein”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-R- -D-E- -R-E-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \tuʁ də ʁɛ̃\ (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.