guérilla
\ɡe.ʁi.ja\
The verdict
“guérilla” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,443. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,443
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps franc, bande de partisans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guerilla · guérilla · French
guérilla · rank #17,443 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,443
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gum
Nearest frequency peer: gum (-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 « guérilla »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Greenpeace
Greenpeace
82,561 corpus weight
- grâces
grâces
82,560 corpus weight
- gum
gum
82,559 corpus weight
- guérilla
guérilla
82,558 corpus weight
- génétiqueme…
génétiquement
82,556 corpus weight
- havane
havane
82,555 corpus weight
What this shows « guérilla » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guérilla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡe.ʁi.ja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guérilla »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around guérilla (IPA \ɡe.ʁi.ja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,443 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for guérilla, with forms such as "gguérilla", "guerilla", and "guréilla". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "gorilla", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 guérilla, spelled G-U-É-R-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Corps franc, bande de partisans.
- 2Technique de combat de ces corps francs fait d’escarmouches et d’évitement d’engagements frontaux.
- 3Film disposant de très peu de moyens financiers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guérilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une guerre de guérilla.
Les guérillas du général von Wirtz quitteront la Courlande si l’Angleterre et la France refusent tout appui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguérilla
- guerilla
- guréilla
- guéirlla
- guérila
- guérilal
- guérlila
- guérrilla
- géurilla
- ugérilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guérilla - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).