Guelma
\ɡɛl.ma\
The verdict
“Guelma” is uncommon French (frequency #66,774 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,774
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville située au nord-est de l’Algérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guelma · Guelma · French
Guelma · rank #66,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gueulait
Nearest frequency peer: gueulait (+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 « Guelma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grenadines
Grenadines
33,231 corpus weight
- gribouille
gribouille
33,230 corpus weight
- grupo
grupo
33,229 corpus weight
- Guelma
Guelma
33,227 corpus weight
- gueulait
gueulait
33,226 corpus weight
- guéguerre
guéguerre
33,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guelma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guelma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛl.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guelma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guelma is uncommon French at frequency #66,774 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡɛl.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Guelma doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Guelma, spelled G-U-E-L-M-A.
Definition
- 1Ville située au nord-est de l’Algérie.
- 2Wilaya dont cette ville est le chef-lieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Guelma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La wilaya de Guelma.
Ainsi, la région de Guelma vient encore une fois de dévoiler un fragment de son histoire, avec la présence de la civilisation byzantine, 6 siècles après J.-C., postérieure à celle de la présence romaine.
Synonyms
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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