gueldre
\ɡɛldʁ\
The verdict
“gueldre” is uncommon French (frequency #57,990 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,990
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Appât que l’on fait en Bretagne avec de petites chevrettes pilées ou la chair de quelques poissons cuits.
| 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) |
Where “gueldre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gueldre is uncommon French at frequency #57,990 among 194,371 “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.
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 “gueldre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-L-D-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡɛldʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.