gueldre
\ɡɛldʁ\
The verdict
“gueldre” is uncommon French (frequency #57,990 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,990
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appât que l’on fait en Bretagne avec de petites chevrettes pilées ou la chair de quelques poissons cuits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gueldre · gueldre · French
gueldre · rank #57,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,990
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GUD
Nearest frequency peer: GUD (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gueldre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grincements
grincements
42,014 corpus weight
- guatémaltèq…
guatémaltèque
42,013 corpus weight
- GUD
GUD
42,012 corpus weight
- gueldre
gueldre
42,011 corpus weight
- Guerin
Guerin
42,010 corpus weight
- guests
guests
42,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gueldre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gueldre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛldʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gueldre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gueldre is uncommon French at frequency #57,990 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɛldʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appât que l’on fait en Bretagne avec de petites chevrettes pilées ou la chair de quelques poissons cuits.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gueldre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 gueldre, spelled G-U-E-L-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Appât que l’on fait en Bretagne avec de petites chevrettes pilées ou la chair de quelques poissons cuits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gueldre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et sans la gueldre infecte, et sans la rogue immonde, Bonsoir à la sardine, et vous ne l’auriez pas, Riches, pour vos hors-d’œuvre, et gueux, pour vos repas.
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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