Guenièvre
\ɡə.njɛvʁ\
The verdict
“Guenièvre” is uncommon French (frequency #51,506 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,506
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage mythique du cycle arthurien, épouse du Roi Arthur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guenievre · Guenièvre · French
Guenièvre · rank #51,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,506
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guadalajara
Nearest frequency peer: Guadalajara (-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 « Guenièvre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grazia
grazia
48,498 corpus weight
- Guadalajara
Guadalajara
48,496 corpus weight
- Guenièvre
Guenièvre
48,495 corpus weight
- gâchent
gâchent
48,494 corpus weight
- généticien
généticien
48,493 corpus weight
- hallucinogè…
hallucinogènes
48,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guenièvre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guenièvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡə.njɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guenièvre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guenièvre is uncommon French at frequency #51,506 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡə.njɛvʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage mythique du cycle arthurien, épouse du Roi Arthur.".
Guenièvre has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Guenièvre, spelled G-U-E-N-I-È-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personnage mythique du cycle arthurien, épouse du Roi Arthur.
This word in other languages
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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