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 September 3, 2026) - Personne responsable d’un crime de guerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criminel-de-guerre · criminel de guerre · French
criminel de guerre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how criminel de guerre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Albert Ouzoulias devait souligner que d’après renseignements, ce criminel de guerre vivait, il y a quelques années encore à Bad Tölzen, en Haute-Bavière (R.F.A.), propriétaire d’un garage.
This word in other languages
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