# Guelph

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɡwɛlf/ · frequency rank #33,261

## Definitions
1. In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.
2. Any member of the German-Hanoverian Party (1867–1933), a conservative federalist political party in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic founded in protest of the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia.

## Etymology
From Italian guelfo, from Middle High German Welf, a Bavarian dynasty.
Welf II, Duke of Bavaria, inherited from his Italian wife, the Countess Matilda of Tuscany, possessions including Tuscany, Ferrara, Modena, Mantua and Reggio, which played a role in the Investiture Controversy. The Welf dynasty sided with the Pope in this controversy, so partisans of the Pope became known in Italy as Guelfi.

## Easily confused with
- **gulp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/guelph-vs-gulp)
- **gulch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/guelph-vs-gulch)

## Common misspellings (9)
`geulph`, `gguelph`, `guelhp`, `guellph`, `guelphh`, `guelpph`, `gueplh`, `guleph`, `ugelph`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/guelph