guelfes
\ɡɛlf\
The verdict
“guelfes” is uncommon French (frequency #71,561 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,561
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de guelfe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guelfes · guelfes · French
guelfes · rank #71,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,561
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grou
Nearest frequency peer: grou (-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 « guelfes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- griots
griots
28,443 corpus weight
- grossièretés
grossièretés
28,442 corpus weight
- grou
grou
28,441 corpus weight
- guelfes
guelfes
28,440 corpus weight
- Guernica
Guernica
28,439 corpus weight
- gueuse
gueuse
28,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guelfes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guelfes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡɛlf\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guelfes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guelfes is uncommon French at frequency #71,561 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡɛlf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de guelfe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for guelfes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is guelfes, spelled G-U-E-L-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de guelfe.
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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