Guenièvre
\ɡə.njɛvʁ\
The verdict
“Guenièvre” is an uncommon French word, ranked #51,506 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #51,506
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personnage mythique du cycle arthurien, épouse du Roi Arthur.
| 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) |
Where “Guenièvre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Guenièvre is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡə.njɛvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,506 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Guenièvre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-N-I-È-V-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.