conseil de guerre
\kɔ̃.sɛj də ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“conseil de guerre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Assemblée que tiennent les officiers généraux d’une armée, ou les officiers principaux d’un détachement, d’une place de guerre, pour délibérer sur le parti qu’on doit prendre en certaines conjonctu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conseil de guerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛj də ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conseil de guerre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conseil de guerre is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɛj də ɡɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for conseil de guerre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is conseil de guerre, spelled C-O-N-S-E-I-L- -D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblée que tiennent les officiers généraux d’une armée, ou les officiers principaux d’un détachement, d’une place de guerre, pour délibérer sur le parti qu’on doit prendre en certaines conjonctures.
- 2Tribunal qui exerce la justice militaire.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-S-E-I-L- -D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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