criminel de guerre
\kʁi.mi.nɛl də ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“criminel de guerre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne responsable d’un crime de guerre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criminel de guerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.mi.nɛl də ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “criminel de guerre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
criminel de guerre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁi.mi.nɛl də ɡɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne responsable d’un crime de guerre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for criminel de guerre, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is criminel de guerre, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L- -D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne responsable d’un crime de guerre.
This word in other languages
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Using “criminel de guerre”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L- -D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.