gue
/ɡjuː/
"gue" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gue” is uncommon English (frequency #76,822 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,822
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gue · gue · English
gue · rank #76,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,822
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gurdwara
Nearest frequency peer: gurdwara (+3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “gue”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grabby
grabby
23,187 corpus weight
- grandee
grandee
23,186 corpus weight
- gue
gue
23,179 corpus weight
- gurdwara
gurdwara
23,176 corpus weight
- guruji
guruji
23,175 corpus weight
- Gwadar
Gwadar
23,174 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gue” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡjuː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gue” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gue is uncommon English at frequency #76,822 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡjuː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gue in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain, perhaps from Old Norse gígja. If so, doublet of gigue. The correct English form is gue, spelled G-U-E.
Definition
- 1A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps from Old Norse gígja. If so, doublet of gigue.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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