déclaration de guerre
\de.kla.ʁa.sjɔ̃ də ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“déclaration 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de déclarer la guerre, acte par lequel une nation, une puissance déclare la guerre à une autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déclaration de guerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kla.ʁa.sjɔ̃ də ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “déclaration de guerre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
déclaration de guerre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kla.ʁa.sjɔ̃ də ɡɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de déclarer la guerre, acte par lequel une nation, une puissance déclare la guerre à une autre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déclaration de guerre, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is déclaration de guerre, spelled D-É-C-L-A-R-A-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Action de déclarer la guerre, acte par lequel une nation, une puissance déclare la guerre à une autre.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “déclaration de guerre”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-L-A-R-A-T-I-O-N- -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.