gué

\ɡe\

/\ɡe\/ noun

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The verdict

“gué” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,618) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#24,618
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit d’une rivière, d’un fleuve où l’eau est assez basse et le fond assez ferme pour qu’on puisse traverser à pied.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gue · gué · French

gué · rank #24,618 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,618
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH généralise

Nearest frequency peer: généralise (+1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gué »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « gué » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gué vs GW
0% similar
gué vs gx
33% similar
gué vs guy
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gué
PropertyValue
Headwordgué
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡe\
Letters3
Frequency rank#24,618
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gué »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).guése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « généralise » (#24,619), « grill » (#24,616), « habitable » (#24,620). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gué » est au #24,618. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for gué is neighbouring look-alikes ("GW", "gx", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡe\. Frequency #24,618 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Endroit d’une rivière, d’un fleuve où l’eau est assez basse et le fond assez ferme pour qu’on puisse traverser à pied.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gué, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GW", "gx", "guy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gué, spelled G-U-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Endroit d’une rivière, d’un fleuve où l’eau est assez basse et le fond assez ferme pour qu’on puisse traverser à pied.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces dépôts sont souvent enfouis à des points de passage obligés ou privilégiés (gués, confluences), ainsi que sur des sites de hauteur fortifiés, permettant le contrôle des voies de communication ; ils semblent ainsi servir de marqueurs au sein du territoire.
  2. Je connais un passage à gué. On se mouille les chevilles.

Synonyms

chevalis

Antonyms

gourgourg

This word in other languages

ford(English)vado(Español)Furt(Deutsch)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gué"?
"gué" is spelled G-U-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡe\.
What does "gué" mean?
As a noun, "gué" means: Endroit d’une rivière, d’un fleuve où l’eau est assez basse et le fond assez ferme pour qu’on puisse traverser à pied.
What words are commonly confused with "gué"?
"gué" is commonly confused with "GW", "gx", "guy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gué"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gué" is \ɡe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gué" come from?
"gué" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gué", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

kif#24,651mls#24,677doo#24,549nel#24,688

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list