gué
\ɡe\
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
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gué” sits in French frequency
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 194,371 “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
- 1Endroit d’une rivière, d’un fleuve où l’eau est assez basse et le fond assez ferme pour qu’on puisse traverser à pied.
Synonyms
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gué”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “GW” - see the side-by-side comparison. gué vs GW
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
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.