guère

\ɡɛʁ\

/\ɡɛʁ\/ adv

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The verdict

“guère” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,924
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Presque pas ; presque rien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-guere · guère · French

guère · rank #3,924 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,924
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH fromage

Nearest frequency peer: fromage (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « guère »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « guère » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

guère vs guet
40% similar
guère vs guide
60% similar
guère vs guise
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for guère
PropertyValue
Headwordguère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\ɡɛʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,924
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guère »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.guèrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fromage » (#3,923), « ile » (#3,925), « froide » (#3,922). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « guère » est au #3,924. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around guère (IPA \ɡɛʁ\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #3,924 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for guère, with forms such as "gguère", "gurèe", and "guèer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guet", "guide", "guise", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guère, spelled G-U-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Presque pas ; presque rien.
  2. 2
    De peu ; d'un rien.
  3. 3
    Presque personne excepté ; presque rien excepté.
  4. 4
    Tout au plus.
  5. 5
    Presque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how guère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On ne voyait pas les tramways. […]. Pourtant les quais où ils roulaient, avec des piaulements plaintifs, n'étaient guère éloignés, car la rue, quelquefois, tremblait à leur passage […].
  2. En Bourgogne, la situation des juifs n’était, d’ailleurs, guère plus enviable qu’en Neustrie (Ile de France, Normandie).

This word in other languages

scarcely(English)kaum(Deutsch)pouco(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • gguère
  • gurèe
  • guèer
  • guèrre
  • gèure
  • ugère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guère - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

gguère1gurèe2guèer2guèrre1gèure2ugère2
Edit distance from "guère"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guère"?
"guère" is spelled G-U-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɛʁ\.
What does "guère" mean?
As an adverb, "guère" means: Presque pas ; presque rien.
What words are commonly confused with "guère"?
"guère" is commonly confused with "guet", "guide", "guise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guère" is \ɡɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guère" come from?
"guère" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

inter#3,928issus#3,930jette#3,931marin#3,936

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

marié6 variantsbiais6 variantsbeurre6 variantsbest6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list