guêpier
\ɡɛ.pje\
The verdict
“guêpier” is uncommon French (frequency #66,779 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,779
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nid de guêpes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guepier · guêpier · French
guêpier · rank #66,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,779
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guéries
Nearest frequency peer: guéries (-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 « guêpier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guéguerre
guéguerre
33,224 corpus weight
- guéries
guéries
33,223 corpus weight
- guêpier
guêpier
33,222 corpus weight
- Gy
Gy
33,221 corpus weight
- gyrophares
gyrophares
33,220 corpus weight
- habré
habré
33,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guêpier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guêpier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛ.pje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guêpier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guêpier is uncommon French at frequency #66,779 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɛ.pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for guêpier, 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 guêpier, spelled G-U-Ê-P-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nid de guêpes.
- 2Endroit dangereux, situation périlleuse, guet-apens, piège, souricière, traquenard.
- 3Oiseau insectivore de la famille des méropidés (Coraciiformes), capturant en vol notamment des hyménoptères (abeilles, guêpes).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guêpier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais le capitaine était un brave soldat ; certain de ne pouvoir se retirer sain et sauf du guêpier dans lequel il se trouvait, il voulut du moins succomber avec honneur.
À Rouvier […] échut la charge ingrate […] de nous tirer du guêpier, de transiger avec des rivaux qui avaient pris figure d’ennemis.
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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