Grande Guerre
The verdict
“Grande Guerre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom donné à la Première Guerre mondiale
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grande Guerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Grande Guerre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Grande Guerre is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃d 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 Grande 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 Grande Guerre, spelled G-R-A-N-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
- 1Nom donné à la Première Guerre mondiale
- 2Guerre de Vendée.
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 “Grande Guerre”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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