guerrilla
guer·ril·la/ɡəˈɹɪlə/noun, adjective
guerrilla is spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A, 3 syllables: guer·ril·la. The wrong spelling people search most is guerrila: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Guerrilla is a noun meaning “A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids”. The plural of guerrilla is guerrillas.
How many letters and syllables are in guerrilla?
| Letters | 9: G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: guer·ril·la |
| In writing | 2.4 times per million words; the 17,587th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, guerrila, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell guerrilla?
Guerrilla is spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for guerrilla in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is guerrilla?
Guerrilla appears 2.4 times per million words in written English, the 17,587th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce guerrilla?
- UK /ɡəˈɹɪlə/
- US /ɡəˈɹɪlə/
- US /ɡəˈɹijə/
Guerrilla has 3 syllables, split guer·ril·la in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-guerrilla.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with guerrilla
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: gorilla (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with guerrilla?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as guerrilla from its last stressed vowel (/ɪlə/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of guerrilla
- guerrillas plural
- more guerrilla comparative
- most guerrilla superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does guerrilla mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.
The right-wing paramilitary's offensive against the Marxist guerrillas failed because they did not know the terrain well enough.
- 2
archaicA non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war.
- 3
A marketer who uses guerrilla marketing techniques.
- 4
A maker of guerrilla television.
adjective
- 1
Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla warfare, or its principles of small independent or non-official perpetrators.
On the other hand, after the fall of Feng Ling Tu, the operations of Central Shansi, and Suiyuan, troops were more guerrilla than orthodox in nature.
- 2
Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla marketing.
- 3
Using unconventional, non-traditional, non-mainstream and often subversive practices to achieve something.
guerrilla marketing
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Guerrilla in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | guérillero, guérillera, partisan, partisane , guérilla |
| German | Partisan, Partisanin, Guerillakämpfer, Guerillakämpferin , Guerilla, Guerillakrieg |
| Portuguese | guerrilheiro, guerrilheira , guerrilha |
| Spanish | guerrillero, guerrillera , guerrilla, guerra de guerrillas |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does guerrilla come from?
Borrowed from Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra (“war”), coined during the Peninsular War.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).