guerra

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The verdict

“guerra” is uncommon German (frequency #73,571 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,571
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Krieg, der Konflikt

Corpus desk

Index DE-guerra · guerra · German

guerra · rank #73,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,571
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH Gundermann

Nearest frequency peer: Gundermann (+1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „guerra“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „guerra“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for guerra
PropertyValue
Headwordguerra
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#73,571
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „guerra“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.guerrafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Gundermann“ (#73,572), „guacamole“ (#73,569), „gruseliges“ (#73,568). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „guerra“ bei #73,571. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

guerra is uncommon German at frequency #73,571 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for guerra in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is guerra, spelled G-U-E-R-R-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Krieg, der Konflikt
  2. 2
    der Kampf
  3. 3
    figurativ: der Krieg

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guerra"?
"guerra" is spelled G-U-E-R-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "guerra" mean?
As a noun, "guerra" means: der Krieg, der Konflikt
How do you pronounce "guerra"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guerra", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

glasig#73,551Hefter#73,594Gerson#73,535Gelege#73,529

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list