tour de siège
\tuʁ də sjɛʒ\
The verdict
“tour de siège” 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) - Tour mobile destinée à passer des remparts pendant un siège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tour-de-siege · tour de siège · French
tour de siège · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 siège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ də sjɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tour de siège is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ də sjɛʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tour mobile destinée à passer des remparts pendant un siège.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tour de siège, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tour de siège, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-E- -S-I-È-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tour mobile destinée à passer des remparts pendant un siège.
Synonyms
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.