guère
French, adverb/ɡɛʁ/
guère is spelled G-U-È-R-E (5 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 3,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guère is a French adverb meaning “hardly, barely, (not) much” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Presque pas ; presque rien”.
What does guère mean in English?
adverb
- 1
hardly, barely, (not) much
Je ne comprends guère le français.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Presque pas ; presque rien. 2. De peu ; d'un rien. 3. Presque personne excepté ; presque rien excepté. 4. Tout au plus.
adjective: 1. Relatif aux Guérés. 2. Relatif au guéré, la langue des Guérés.
noun: 1. Langue des Guérés, langue kru parlée en Côte d’Ivoire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of guère
- guères
- guérés plural masculine
- guérée singular feminine
- guérées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guère?
- /ɡɛʁ/
- \ɡɛʁ\
- [ɡɛːʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to guère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guère in French?
guère appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).