guelfe
\ɡɛlf\
The verdict
“guelfe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la faction qui soutenait la papauté par opposition aux tenants de l’empereur germanique (XIIIᵉ - XIVᵉ siècles).
Corpus desk
Index FR-guelfe · guelfe · French
guelfe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guelfe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡɛlf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
guelfe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡɛlf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la faction qui soutenait la papauté par opposition aux tenants de l’empereur germanique (XIIIᵉ - XIVᵉ siècles).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guelfe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guelfe, spelled G-U-E-L-F-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la faction qui soutenait la papauté par opposition aux tenants de l’empereur germanique (XIIIᵉ - XIVᵉ siècles).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guelfe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après une longue suite de fortunes diverses, favorable un jour au parti guelfe, un jour au parti gibelin, la cité, vers cette époque, restait aux guelfes.
L’Italie du moyen âge étoit l’Italie des deux grandes factions guelfe et gibeline, l’Italie des rivalités républicaines et des petites tyrannies ; on n’y entendoit parler que de crimes et de liberté ; tout s’y faisoit à la pointe du poignard.
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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.